Creative License Brings “The Lifespan of a Fact” to Cohoes Music Hall

COHOES, NY — Creative License, the Capital Region theater company known for pairing strong ideas with intimate, actor-driven productions, returns to the Cohoes Music Hall this winter with the acclaimed and surprisingly funny Broadway hit The Lifespan of a Fact. Performances run January 30 through February 8, 2026, at the historic Music…

Favorites of 2025: Jess Hoffman

10. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee – Sand Lake Center for the Arts Sand Lake Center for the Arts’s fall production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee was impossible not to love. The adult cast portrayed the adolescent characters with humor and sincerity. Allison McArdle Avery’s…

REVIEW: Creative License Presents “The Comeuppance” at the Cohoes Music Hall

by Jess Hoffman Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a Pulitzer and Tony award-winning new and noteworthy powerhouse of a playwright for whom I have much admiration. His 2014 drama Appropriate and 2015 tragicomedy Gloria are both spectacular works that I have previously seen on stage, and his newest play Purpose recently won…

REVIEW: Creative License Presents “A Few Good Men”

by Jess Hoffman It was with high hopes that I braved Friday’s snowstorm to see Creative License Theater Collective’s production of A Few Good Men at the Cohoes Music Hall. I greatly enjoyed the iconic 1992 film based on this play–a gripping courtroom drama about two soldiers accused of murdering…

“A Few Good Men” Takes the Stage at Cohoes Music Hall

Cohoes, NY — Get ready for an electrifying theatrical experience as Aaron Sorkin’s iconic courtroom drama A Few Good Men comes to life at Cohoes Music Hall. Directed by Aaron Holbritter, co-founder of Creative License, this gripping production runs from January 31st to February 9th, and was originally announced with…

Creative License Theater Collective Presents “A Few Good Men”

Creative License Theater Collective presents “A Few Good Men” January 31-February 9, 2025 at the Cohoes Music Hall, 58 Remsen Street, Cohoes NY Step into the high-stakes world of honor, duty, and justice with the heart-pounding military legal drama A Few Good Men, brought to life on stage by Creative…

Creative License brings Jeff Daniels’ “Apartment 3A” to Cohoes Music Hall

The Creative License Theater Collective is currently in rehearsals for its upcoming production of Apartment 3A, for a special extended, one-weekend engagement September 5th through the 8th. The company is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and its third as the resident non-musical theater company at the historic Cohoes Music Hall. Annie Wilson…

REVIEW: “Afterlife: a ghost story” Creative License Theater Collective

by Jess Hoffman Creative License’s current production at Cohoes Music Hall calls itself a ghost story. In a sense it is; but Afterlife is about those psychological ghosts that haunt people from the inside: grief and regret, to name just two. The first act revolves around married couple Connor and…