PITTSFIELD — A funny thing happend to Jim Charles and Tony Rivera on their way from New York to Cohoes, just north of Albany. A theater was born. It's called C-R Productions and it has just finished ...

Cohoes Music Hall is feeling the pinch. Echoing a few others area arts and business leaders, Jim Charles — artistic director of C-R Productions — says it took awhile for his troupe to feel the full ...

C-R Productions will hold an open house May 4 at its newly opened C-R Kids Performing Arts School. The school will offer performing arts training for children at a 7,400-square-foot facility at 9 ...

COHOES, N.Y. -- Among the many remarkable qualities of the thoroughly winning musical "Hairspray" is its ability to take itself seriously without, at the same time, taking itself SERIOUSLY. There are ...

After a dozen years of staging musicals at the Cohoes Music Hall, C-R Productions is closing the curtain on its main-stage shows to focus on its performing arts school and youth performances. Marking ...

Oddly, “Sunset Boulevard” is not the first musical about the life and passions of a silent film star that I have seen at Cohoes Music Hall. The first was the strangely named, completely captivating ...