In Anthony Rapp’s ‘Without You,’ there’s joy inside the tears

Rapp chronicled that life-changing experience in “Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent” that became a bestseller in 2006. He then spent the next decade working on and off with Steve Maler , founding artistic director of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, developing the book into the one-man musical “Without You,” that plays the Calderwood Pavilion April 2-14. When Anthony Rapp was cast in a workshop production of a new musical in 1994, he was just happy he could quit his job at Starbucks. But he had no...