'Angry Alan' Off Broadway Review: John Krasinski Expertly Dons Lamb's Clothing to Play a Pig

Casting is everything, especially when a play presents a basically distasteful character and asks us to identify - or, at least, to understand. In such theatrical situations, it helps when the actor playing the dark protagonist exudes not only charm but is innately likable. Jim Parsons, with his Nice Guy persona, made the viper-tongued Michael in "The Boys in the Band" extremely watchable. In Penelope Skinner's "Angry Alan," John Krasinski provides a similar charisma that puts the Roger character on the side of the audience until, one vexed comment after another, we turn on the . . .