Professionally, Chris is demanding enough of himself in his determination “to escape from the cape.” Explains Chris, “I can’t just say ‘I’m not Superman, I’m an actor.’ I have to prove it.” Last season he risked playing a gay amputee on Broadway in Lanford Wilson’s Fifth of July. “When I got depressed by a bad review in the New York Times,” he recalls, “Gae showed me how I foolishly pay attention to one guy who thinks I’m a jerk and ignore the 32 critics who liked me.” This summer he’s on the boards again at the ambitious Williamstown (Mass.) Playhouse, where he opens this week as Achilles in The Greeks.