Anthony Rapp’s Without You

Relive la vie bohème at Anthony Rapp's Without You! See the Rent star pay a touching tribute to a musical that changed his life and that of Broadway history. Get Anthony Rapp's Without You tickets on TodayTix.

Hear Rapp perform Rent songs like "La Vie Bohème" and "Seasons of Love" as you’ve never heard them before, woven in with original songs and behind-the-scenes stories from Rent. Together, they make Without You an unforgettable, personal reflection on family, love, and loss that will move any Rent fan.

It’s 1994, and Rapp is 22, at the start of Without You. He's broke and working at Starbucks, but he has one thing on the horizon: an audition. Soon enough, that audition landed him the role of Mark Cohen in Rent, propelling him to fame as he played the role off Broadway, on Broadway, and across the pond.

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Jonathan Larson's musical went on to win Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize, but he never got to see it — Larson died the morning of the show's first performance, and the Off-Broadway premiere became a tribute. During this time, Rapp and his mother had a rocky relationship, and Rapp shares all these stories and more in Without You off Broadway.

He first published his story as a memoir of the same name in 2006, 10 years after Rent premiered. He turned the book into the Without You show in 2012. Rapp has performed it across the country and in the U.K., but this is the first performance of Without You in New York.

Rapp has also appeared in stage shows like You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and Six Degrees of Separation.

What to Watch For

• Keep your ears out for one song that's neither from Rent nor Rapp, but from R.E.M. Rapp auditioned for Rent with "Losing My Religion," and it kicks off Without You.
• Without You is technically a solo show, but a five-piece band accompanies Rapp on stage.
• Rapp's last Broadway outing was in the musical If/Then. He starred alongside his Rent co-star Idina Menzel!
• Besides being a stage actor, Rapp has also appeared on screen in Star Trek: Discovery, The X-Files, Law & Order: SVU, and of course, the Rent movie. He is one of six Broadway cast members who reprised their roles in the film.
• Theatre runs in the family! Rapp’s brother is Adam Rapp, who wrote the Tony-nominated play The Sound Inside and the Pulitzer-nominated play Red Light Winter.