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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Charles actually wears many hats at C-R Productions, the theater group he and Tony Rivera started at the Cohoes Music Hall seven years ago. He also serves as the group’s artistic manager, and if he’s ...