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Beyond Glory (Laura Pels Theatre, 111 W. 46, through Aug. 19). Stephen Lang’s fire-eating portrayal of eight recipients of the Medal of Honor has finally made it to New York two years after I saw it at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre. “Mr. Lang’s one-man play is no simple-minded piece of flag-waving,” I wrote in The Wall Street Journal in 2005. “It is an unsparingly direct portrait of men at war, pushed into narrow corners and faced with hard choices. It is also one of the richest, most complex pieces of acting I’ve seen in my theatergoing life.” All still true. This one is an absolute must (TT).