Table Read

Caravaggio, the brilliant outlaw painter whose genius made him famous and whose violence made him a fugitive.
Rome, 1610. The city is loud, corrupt, holy, and dangerous. Caravaggio thrives in it.
Act One drops you straight into the night everything breaks. Inside a dark Roman chapel, Caravaggio confronts his greatest rival and exposes a truth the Church is not ready to control. God does not live in perfection. God lives in flesh, shadow, and brutal light.
Outside the church, Rome answers back. Wine turns into provocation. Desire turns into rivalry. Old grudges sharpen. A debt comes due. What begins as swagger spirals into violence, and by dawn Caravaggio’s life in Rome is over.
Wanted. Hunted. Unforgivable.
A carriage slips through the gates. A boat cuts across black water. Behind him, the city that crowned him now wants him dead. Ahead lies Malta, a fortified island ruled by warrior monks, where faith is enforced with steel and survival demands obedience.
Act One is ignition. Art as rebellion. Faith as power. Genius as liability.
This is where the fuse gets lit.

Cast
Dennis Kleinman · Narrator
Craig Parker · Caravaggio
Dan Lauria · Cardinal Del Monte
Bruce Davison · Alof de Wignacourt
Shaan Sharma · Stefano della Croce
Catherine Lidstone · Lena
Sarah Elmaleh · Maria
Brendan Bradley · Annibale Carracci
Noah James · Ranuccio Tomassoni
Josh Sterling · Ottavio Tomassoni
Zeke Alton · Giovan Tomassoni
Nick Monteleone · Mancini
Matt Curtin · Toppa
Bjorn Johnson · Pope Paul V
Ray Abruzzo · Pope Clement VIII
Written by
Richard Vetere
Executive Produced by
Jack Levy, Shaan Sharma, and Mark Knell
Table Read is a Manifest Media production.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rome. 1610. A painter who sees God in the faces of prostitutes and killers is on the run for murder.
His name is Caravaggio. He drinks too much. He loves recklessly. Men, women, it doesn't matter. He picks fights with swordsmen and screams at the heavens in candlelit chapels. He paints the way other men pray, except his prayers are in defiance. And the Catholic Church can't decide whether to pardon him or let the bounty hunters finish the job.
This screenplay by Richard Vetere, a Pulitzer nominee and Golden Palm winner whose work has been produced by Francis Ford Coppola, follows Caravaggio from the brothels of Rome to a besieged fortress on Malta where a scarred Grand Master offers him sanctuary and something that looks a lot like love. But sanctuary has a price. And Caravaggio has never paid what he owes without bleeding for it.
There are popes making deals in candlelight. Brothers hunting him across the Mediterranean for killing their own. A muse he left behind in Rome who can't wait much longer. A rival painter who despises his work and can't stop staring at it. Knights nailed to crosses and set on fire floating into the harbor at dawn. A prison cell carved into rock like a grave. And an escape across open sea in a fishing boat guided by a boy too afraid to speak.
This is not a quiet period piece. This is Game of Thrones in Renaissance Italy with paintbrushes and rapiers.
Craig Parker, who played Haldir in Lord of the Rings, plays Caravaggio. Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Bruce Davison plays the Grand Master. Dan Lauria, America's dad from The Wonder Years, plays the Cardinal pulling every string in Rome. Ray Abruzzo, Little Carmine from The Sopranos, plays the Pope. The cast includes Broadway veterans, stars of The Chosen, the voices behind the biggest video games on the planet, and a former Navy test pilot born in Italy playing an Italian swordsman.
Fourteen actors. One genius who painted like God was guiding his hand and lived like the devil was chasing him. Turns out both were true.
This is Caravaggio. This is Table Read. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

BONUS PARTNER TRAILER
Today we’re sharing a sci-fi audio drama trailer from our friends at Voyage Media, creators of multiple #1 fiction podcasts.
HARD DRIVE stars Priah Ferguson (STRANGER THINGS) as a young woman who inherits a hard drive containing her late grandfather’s memories. As she explores them, she uncovers instructions he left behind and discovers she may be the key to stopping a global population-control conspiracy.
Created by the Neese Twins (UMBRELLA ACADEMY) and produced by Voyage Media (SANCTUARY, ELUCIDITY), HARD DRIVE blends mystery, thriller, and sci-fi with an eight-episode first season available now.
Search HARD DRIVE from Voyage Media wherever you listen to podcasts.
Listen now: https://www.voyagemedia.fm/show/hard-drive/

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rooms of Experience, Act 3
By Steffany Sommers
Starring Patty McCormack as Ada Wells
and Dan Lauria as DA Harvey Davis
Everything converges.
The courtroom becomes the center of gravity.
Every choice Dana made now has a witness.
Alexis puts Ada on the stand.
And for the first time, the story is told without protection.
No strategy.
No framing.
Just truth.
Ada speaks about the years.
The fear.
The promises she made when no one else would.
About loving someone the world was never built for.
The room changes.
Disability rights advocates clash with prosecutors.
Expert testimony collides with lived experience.
The line between justice and cruelty grows thinner by the minute.
Harvey pushes for a conviction.
The system demands closure.
The media waits for a headline.
Dana is forced to decide who she is when the rules stop helping.
Not as a prosecutor.
As a human being.
The verdict comes down.
And nothing about it feels simple.
In the end, there is no victory.
Only consequence.
Only reckoning.
Act Three asks the final question.
What do we owe each other
when love is the only thing left?
Starring Academy Award nominee Patty McCormack (The Bad Seed) as Ada Wells
with Dan Lauria (The Wonder Years) as DA Harvey Davis
Craig Parker (The Lord of the Rings) as Detective Curtis
Nicholas Gonzalez (The Good Doctor) as Carter
Nora Zehetner (Heroes, Everwood) as Rebecca
Alyshia Ochse as Dana Jeffries
Candice Coke as Alexis Martinez
Eileen Grubba as Gina Gordon
Alain Uy as Ethan
and narrated by Sarah Elmaleh
Table Read is executive produced by Jack Levy, Mark Knell, and Sean Sharma.
A Manifest Media production.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rooms of Experience, Act 2
By Steffany Sommers
Starring Patty McCormack as Ada Wells
and Dan Lauria as DA Harvey Davis
The cracks start to spread.
Dana tries to outrun the case. Literally.
But every answer leads to worse questions.
She digs into Teddy’s past.
Talks to doctors.
Families.
People who trusted institutions and paid for it.
What she finds isn’t comforting.
Facilities where the vulnerable disappear.
Bruises explained away.
Medication used as control.
Silence treated like consent.
Ada’s fear wasn’t paranoia.
It was experience.
Meanwhile, the pressure builds.
Disability rights groups mobilize.
The media sharpens its narrative.
And DA Harvey Davis makes it clear.
This case is about optics, not nuance.
“No deal,” he reminds her.
Win at all costs.
Alexis keeps pushing for mercy.
Gina watches Ada waste away.
Funeral grief turns into physical collapse.
The woman who survived everything may not survive this.
Dana stands in the middle.
Her career on one side.
Her conscience on the other.
She starts to see herself in Alexis.
In Ada.
In the choices women make just to survive systems designed without them.
By the end of Act Two, Dana knows.
This trial isn’t about guilt.
It’s about who she becomes when the whole world is watching.
And there’s no clean way out.
_______________________________
Starring Academy Award nominee Patty McCormack (The Bad Seed) as Ada Wells
with Dan Lauria (The Wonder Years) as DA Harvey Davis
Craig Parker (The Lord of the Rings) as Detective Curtis
Nicholas Gonzalez (The Good Doctor) as Carter
Nora Zehetner (Heroes, Everwood) as Rebecca
Alyshia Ochse as Dana Jeffries
Candice Coke as Alexis Martinez
Eileen Grubba as Gina Gordon
Alain Uy as Ethan
and narrated by Sarah Elmaleh
Table Read is executive produced by Jack Levy, Mark Knell, and Sean Sharma. A Manifest Media production.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.