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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Rooms of Experience, Act 1

By Steffany Sommers

Starring Patty McCormack as Ada Wells

and Dan Lauria as DA Harvey Davis

The call comes in at night.

An elderly woman.

A dead son.

A tank of helium left in plain sight.

Ada Wells doesn’t deny it.

She wanted his last day to be peaceful.

Enter Dana Jeffries, razor-sharp, undefeated, and hungry to prove herself.

Her boss, Harvey Davis, assigns the case for one reason: optics.

Defense attorney Alexis Martinez pushes back hard.

Detective Curtis starts questioning his own conclusions.

Gina Gordon protects Ada like family.

Carter becomes another pressure point inside the machine.

Rebecca is caught in the ripple effect.

Then Alexis shows Dana the home movies.

The real story.

The years no one saw.

The cost no one counted.

By the end of Act One, Dana walks out of Ada’s house shaken.

No longer sure the law and justice are the same thing.

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

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Rooms of Experience

By Steffany Sommers

What if the most unforgivable crime came from the purest love?

Ada Wells is eighty-nine.

Her son, Teddy, is autistic.

She has spent sixty years protecting him from a world that never learned how to love him back.

Then one night, she makes a choice that shatters everything.

Now the system wants a conviction.

The media wants a monster.

And rising prosecutor Dana Jeffries is handed the most politically explosive case of her career.

Defense attorney Alexis Martinez knows this isn’t about murder.

It’s about a mother who outlived her child.

About institutions that failed.

About love pushed past the breaking point.

Rooms of Experience is a devastating courtroom drama about motherhood, morality, and the brutal cost of survival.

This isn’t about guilt.

It’s about understanding.

__________________________

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

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The clock runs out.

The curtain comes up.

With opening night looming, the magic begins to fail. Bodies ache. Secrets surface. And the line between who Natalie and Ava were… and who they’ve become… finally disappears.

Natalie must confront what she’s been chasing her entire life — and what it cost her to get there.

Ava must decide whether stepping into the spotlight is worth stepping away from who she is.

The Sugar Plum Fairy is no longer just a role.

It’s a reckoning.

As rivalries peak and loyalties collide, the question is no longer who deserves the part — but who’s willing to let it go. And whether the universe will allow either girl to walk away unchanged.

Act Three is where the story lands.

Where ambition meets consequence.

Where magic demands payment.

Because sometimes you get exactly what you wished for.

And sometimes the bravest thing you can do…

is give it back.

It’s still funny.

It’s still sharp.

But now it’s honest.

Written by award-winning writer Jenna St. John.

Starring:

Kensington Tallman as Natalie Primavera

Logan Laurel as Ava Ross

Konstantin Lavysh as Mr. Constantine

Carson Bolde as Grayson Garcia

Sasha Knight as Trevor

Rita Dos Santos as Kenzie

Samantha A. Smith as Jasmine Kearn

Eva Binder as Zoe Dennings

Adele Abinante as Bean Ross

Avery Clyde as Mrs. Primavera

Katherine Brunk as Ms. Ross

Brandon Potter as Mr. Primavera

Sarah Elmaleh as Miss Lana

Miki Yamashita as Miss Miyako

Paula Tiso as Narrator

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The wish came true.

Now the consequences begin.

Natalie Primavera is trapped in a hospital bed, her body broken, her future uncertain — while her mind is stuck inside Ava Ross, a dancer who was never supposed to be good enough for the spotlight.

Ava, meanwhile, is living inside Natalie’s perfect body… and discovering that perfection is a prison with great lighting.

As Nutcracker rehearsals intensify, the magic destabilizes. Roles are threatened. Loyalties fracture. The Sugar Plum Fairy becomes a battleground. And the line between ambition and identity starts to blur.

Friendships turn sharp. Parents get complicated. Romance gets messy. And a Romanian ballet master with secrets of his own begins pushing both girls toward a reckoning neither of them is ready for.

Act Two is where the comedy deepens, the stakes rise, and the story stops being about switching bodies — and starts being about who deserves the life they’re fighting for.

Because wanting something badly doesn’t mean you understand the cost.

It’s still funny.

It’s still chaotic.

But now it hurts in the best way.

Written by award-winning writer Jenna St. John.

Starring:

Kensington Tallman as Natalie Primavera

Logan Laurel as Ava Ross

Konstantin Lavysh as Mr. Constantine

Carson Bolde as Grayson Garcia

Sasha Knight as Trevor

Rita Dos Santos as Kenzie

Samantha A. Smith as Jasmine Kearn

Eva Binder as Zoe Dennings

Adele Abinante as Bean Ross

Avery Clyde as Mrs. Primavera

Katherine Brunk as Ms. Ross

Brandon Potter as Mr. Primavera

Sarah Elmaleh as Miss Lana

Miki Yamashita as Miss Miyako

Paula Tiso as Narrator

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What happens when you wish you were someone else… and the universe says bet?

Natalie Primavera has a million followers, perfect technique, and the lead role in every show.

Ava Ross has a cracked phone, a boyfriend who sings like naked Miley Cyrus, and a work-study job sweeping up after other dancers.

One ancient snow globe. Two desperate wishes. And suddenly they wake up in each other’s bodies.

There’s just one problem: Natalie’s body is now in a hospital bed with a shattered hip. And Ava’s body? It’s about to dance the Sugar Plum Fairy… with ankles like wet spaghetti.

What follows is the funniest, most chaotic Nutcracker rehearsal season in history... zombie cats, possessed dolls, a Romanian ballet master who might actually be a warlock, his terrifying nine-year-old son, and a love triangle nobody ordered.

But underneath the chaos is something real: two girls discovering that the lives they envied aren’t what they seemed.

It’s Freaky Friday meets Center Stage, and it hits.

THE UNDERSTUDY: ACT ONE

Written by award-winning writer Jenna St. John.

Starring:

Kensington Tallman as Natalie Primavera

Logan Laurel as Ava Ross

Konstantin Lavysh as Mr. Constantine

Carson Bolde as Grayson Garcia

Sasha Knight as Trevor

Rita Dos Santos as Kenzie

Samantha A. Smith as Jasmine Kearn

Eva Binder as Zoe Dennings

Adele Abinante as Bean Ross

Avery Clyde as Mrs. Primavera

Katherine Brunk as Ms. Ross

Brandon Potter as Mr. Primavera

Sarah Elmaleh as Miss Lana

Miki Yamashita as Miss Miyako

Paula Tiso as Narrator

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THE UNDERSTUDY

What happens when you wish you were someone else... and the universe says bet?

Natalie Primavera has a million Instagram followers, perfect technique, and the lead role in every show. Ava Ross has a cracked phone, a nerdy boyfriend who dresses as naked Miley Cyrus, and a work-study job sweeping the dance studio.

One ancient snow globe. Two desperate wishes. And suddenly they wake up in each other's bodies.

There's just one problem: Natalie's body is now in a hospital bed with a shattered hip. And Ava's body? It's about to dance the Sugar Plum Fairy... with ankles like wet spaghetti.

What follows is the funniest, most chaotic Nutcracker rehearsal season in history. We're talking zombie cats, possessed dolls, a Romanian ballet master with a terrifying nine-year-old son, and a love triangle nobody asked for.

But underneath the chaos is something real: two girls discovering that the lives they envied aren't what they seemed, and that maybe the grass isn't greener, it's just... different grass.

The Understudy. It's Freaky Friday meets Center Stage, and it slaps.

Written by award-winning writer Jenna St. John.

Starring:

Kensington Tallman as Natalie Primavera

Logan Laurel as Ava Ross

Konstantin Lavysh as Mr. Constantine

Carson Bolde as Grayson Garcia

Sasha Knight as Trevor

Rita Dos Santos as Kenzie

Samantha A. Smith as Jasmine

Kearn Eva Binder as Zoe Dennings

Adele Abinante as Bean Ross

Avery Clyde as Mrs. Primavera

Katherine Brunk as Ms. Ross Brandon

Potter as Mr. Primavera

Sarah Elmaleh as Miss

Lana Miki Yamashita as Miss Miyako

Paula Tiso is the Narrator

Only on Table Read.

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