MY LADY'S SONG - Act 2

A limo driver. A blackmail tape in motion. A senator with everything to protect.  What started as leverage is about to turn into control, betrayal, and survival.ACT TWOThe ride is over. The damage is not.What was leverage becomes exposure.  And everyone wants a piece of it.Sal thought he could drive away from it.  He was wrong.The tape moves.Hands change. Intentions shift.  And the people behind it start stepping into the light.Vincent steps in. Old world. Old rules.  A man who understands that power isn’t what you have… it’s what you can take back.Charlie circles.  Smiling just enough to make you wonder how far this goes.And Baxter?He doesn’t panic. He recalculates.  Because men like him don’t lose… they rewrite the outcome.Hara sees it too.The angles. The leverage. The opening.  And she’s not asking permission.The city fades in the rearview. The road stretches out.  What’s left is distance… and decisions.Who controls the tape?  Who controls the story?  And who walks away from it?Because now it’s not about the job.It’s about ownership.Act Two is where alliances fracture, truth gets negotiated, and silence becomes the most dangerous move in the room.And by the time it’s over…no one is clean.🎭 CASTSAL – Ronnie Marmo  CHARLIE – Sam McMurray  SENATOR BAXTER / THE JOHN – Joe Mantegna  VINCENT – Dan Lauria  HARA – Gia Mantegna  LOTTA – Ally Dunbar  NARRATOR – Vanessa Richardson  DONNA – Janelle Marmo  CARMELA – Patty McCormack  PORN DIRECTOR – Robert Wuhl  LEO – Zeke Alton  ANTHONY – Alec Leonard  With additional performances from:  Janelle Marmo, Ally Dunbar, Gia Mantegna, Zeke Alton, Alec Leonard  🎬 PRODUCTIONDirected by Jack Levy  & Mark KnellExecutive Produced by Shaan Sharma, Jack Levy, 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.

MY LADY'S SONGA limo driver. Two porn stars. A senator with everything to lose.One night in New York that turns into leverage, betrayal, and war.ACT ONENew York. Late-night Eighth Avenue. Strip clubs, neon, and power moving quietly behind tinted glass.Sal “The Barber” Marino is a former soldier of the streets, a man who did twelve years without talking and now makes a living driving high-end clients through a city he no longer trusts.One call pulls him back in.A simple job. Easy money. Drive the girls. Pick up the client. Keep your mouth shut.But the client is a powerful senator. The ride is being recorded. And the job isn’t what it seems.What starts as routine turns into leverage. a blackmail setup that reaches into politics, unions, and the last remnants of old-school control.As the night bleeds into morning and the city gives way to the open road, Sal is locked in with Hara; young, sharp, and unpredictable. Two worlds collide. Old code versus new survival.And then it breaks.A confrontation. A line crossed. A slap that lands harder than anything that came before.That’s the moment everything changes.Act One ends when business becomes personal... and there’s no going back.🎭 CASTSAL – Ronnie Marmo CHARLIE – Sam McMurray SENATOR BAXTER / THE JOHN – Joe Mantegna VINCENT – Dan Lauria HARA – Gia Mantegna LOTTA – Ally Dunbar NARRATOR – Vanessa RichardsonDONNA – Janelle Marmo CARMELA – Patty McCormack PORN DIRECTOR – Robert Wuhl LEO – Zeke Alton ANTHONY – Alec Leonard🎬 PRODUCTIONDirected by Mark Knell & Jack LevyExecutive Produced by Shaan Sharma, Jack Levy, and Mark KnellTable 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.

🎧 THE G.Y.M. Welcome to THE G.Y.M.Not a gym. A situation.Valerie inherited a neighborhood gym from her mother.What she actually inherited? Debt, broken equipment, a failing business… and a staff that turns every small problem into a full-blown emergency.Across the street, a sleek corporate fitness empire is opening with glass walls, perfect lighting, and zero chaos.Inside The G.Y.M.?Flooded hot tubs.Out-of-order bikes.A spin class that may or may not be a lawsuit waiting to happen.And a “Grand Re-Opening” that could either save the place… or finally finish it.This is a workplace comedy where nothing works, nobody communicates, and every attempt to fix things somehow makes them worse.Think Parks and Recreation meets It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, set inside a failing gym where the stakes are low… until suddenly they’re not.Recorded live at SXSW /. Podcast Movement, this Austin Film Festival award-winning script by Dani Hanks delivers fast, character-driven comedy with just enough heart to make you root for people who absolutely should not be in charge of anything.You don’t come here to get fit.You come here because something is definitely about to go wrong.🎭 CastAllison Dunbar as ValerieYasmine Al-Bustami as KaylaKensington Tallman as AlexaShaan Sharma as WadeJoe Nemmers as Gary HughesJacob A. Ware as BryanBrian Villalobos as ChrisAmy Bailey as MaryHeather Foster, NarratorSpecial appearance by our attorney Scott Hervey as Client Carlin🎬 From Table Read PodcastExecutive Producers: Jack Levy, Mark Knell, & Shaan SharmaProduced by Manifest Media ProductionsRecorded live at SXSW / Podcast MovementSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

TABLE READ: My Lady’s SongWritten by Dan LauriaNew York. Late-night Eighth Avenue. Strip clubs, limos, politicians, porn stars, and ghosts of the old neighborhood.My Lady’s Song drops you straight into the smoky, blood-soaked underbelly of a city that doesn’t forgive and never forgets.Sal “The Barber” Marino is an aging ex-soldier of the streets — a limo driver who once did twelve years without talking. Now he drives high-end clients and keeps his head down. But when a powerful senator, a pair of porn stars, and a blackmail tape collide during sensitive union negotiations, Sal is pulled back into a world he thought he left behind.This is not a nostalgia piece.This is loyalty versus survival.Old code versus new money.Family versus leverage.Set against a soundtrack style of Billie Holiday, Etta James, Dinah Washington, and Bessie Smith, My Lady’s Song moves like Goodfellas at midnight and feels like The Sopranos when the jokes stop being funny.What starts as a simple drive to Los Angeles turns into a reckoning — with betrayal, with memory, and with the cost of keeping your mouth shut.Nobody in podcasting is bringing this level of writing, performance, and cinematic scope.This is prestige drama.Performed. Not narrated.Hollywood caliber. Start to finish.___________________________________🎭 FULL CASTSAL – Ronnie MarmoAn ex-con soldier turned limo driver. Hardened. Loyal. Dangerous when pushed.CHARLIE – Sam McMurrayLa Salle Limo manager. Old-school operator with a sharp tongue.SENATOR BAXTER / THE JOHN – Joe MantegnaPowerful, polished, and utterly ruthless. Politics meets leverage.VINCENT – Dan LauriaUnion boss. Businessman. Architect of control.HARA – Gia MantegnaYoung, defiant, smarter than everyone assumes.LOTTA – Ally DunbarSavvy operator. Knows how to play both sides of the camera.NARRATOR – Vanessa RichardsonA true-crime icon brings gravitas and noir elegance to the storytelling spine.DONNA – Janelle MarmoCARMELA – Patty McCormackPORN DIRECTOR – Robert WuhlLEO – Zeke AltonANTHONY – Alec LeonardWith additional performances from:Janelle MarmoAlly DunbarGia MantegnaZeke AltonAlec LeonardThis cast could walk onto a soundstage tomorrow and shoot this for theatrical release. It’s that level.____________________________________________________________________Directed by Mark Knell & Jack LevyExecutive Produced by Shaan Sharma, Jack Levy, and Mark KnellTable 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.

The cage breaks open. Caravaggio breaks with it.Chained in a torture chamber beneath the fortress, Caravaggio faces the Grand Master one last time. Faith against flesh. Obedience against desire. What follows is an escape down a fortress wall, a boat in the dark, and a fugitive painter running not toward freedom but toward the only thing he has left.Act Three is the fall. Brutal. Beautiful. Inevitable.Sicily. Caravaggio paints like a man on fire. In Syracuse, a burial. In Messina, a nativity. Each canvas more desperate than the last. Each one a confession he cannot say out loud. The genius is still there. The man holding the brush is disappearing.Back in Rome, the news arrives. Lena. The woman whose face launched his greatest work. Gone. Caravaggio learns what it costs to leave someone behind in a city that devours the unprotected.Cardinal Del Monte makes his final play. A pardon. A real one. Signed by the Pope himself. But the pardon needs a delivery and Caravaggio needs to stay alive long enough to receive it.Naples. A prison cell. Malaria. Chains. The Grand Master finds him one last time. Two men who could never say what they meant finally say it. It is too late for both of them.Then a swamp. Bandits. A boiling sun. A beach. A boy. Two nuns. And the Tyrrhenian coast, where the greatest painter of his generation reaches for the light one final time.The pardon arrives. The man does not.Act Three is reckoning. Loss. Grace. The moment the fuse runs out.What you see in the art, you will find in the artist. What you see in the artist, you will find in the man.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 VIIIWritten by Richard VetereExecutive Produced by Jack Levy, Shaan Sharma, and Mark KnellTable 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.

Malta. A fortress carved from rock, surrounded by sea, ruled by warrior monks who pray at dawn and kill by noon.Caravaggio arrives to paint a portrait. He stays because he has no choice. The Grand Master offers sanctuary, admiration, and something neither man is prepared to name. The Captain at Arms offers suspicion, jealousy, and a locked door every night.Act Two is the cage. Beautiful. Suffocating. Holy.Caravaggio paints the Grand Master's portrait and captures more than armor and scars. He captures a man's loneliness. The Knights throw a feast in his honor. He dances on tables. He is knighted with a gold sword. He is watched from every window.Back in Rome, Cardinal Del Monte fights for a papal pardon while the Tomassoni brothers hire bounty hunters. The Pope dies. A new Pope rises. The Church still cannot decide what Caravaggio is worth.On the beach, the Turks attack. Knights are nailed to crosses and set on fire, floated into the harbor at dawn. Caravaggio picks up a sword for the first time. He gives water to a dying boy. The boy is killed in front of him.Flashbacks pull him back to Rome. To Lena. To the night Ranuccio came for him with a blade. To the moment that changed everything.He paints The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist on a chapel wall and signs his name in the blood flowing from the saint's neck. The only painting he ever signed.Then he paints a Cupid so grotesque it seals his fate.Act Two is devotion. Desire. Betrayal. The moment a man realizes that the sanctuary he was promised is just a prison with better art on the walls.The fuse is burning.CastDennis Kleinman · NarratorCraig Parker · CaravaggioDan Lauria · Cardinal Del MonteBruce Davison · Alof de WignacourtShaan Sharma · Stefano della CroceCatherine Lidstone · LenaSarah Elmaleh · MariaBrendan Bradley · Annibale CarracciNoah James · Ranuccio TomassoniJosh Sterling · Ottavio TomassoniZeke Alton · Giovan TomassoniNick Monteleone · ManciniMatt Curtin · ToppaBjorn Johnson · Pope Paul VRay Abruzzo · Pope Clement VIIIWritten byRichard VetereExecutive Produced byJack Levy, Shaan Sharma, and Mark KnellTable 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.

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.CastDennis Kleinman · NarratorCraig Parker · CaravaggioDan Lauria · Cardinal Del MonteBruce Davison · Alof de WignacourtShaan Sharma · Stefano della CroceCatherine Lidstone · LenaSarah Elmaleh · MariaBrendan Bradley · Annibale CarracciNoah James · Ranuccio TomassoniJosh Sterling · Ottavio TomassoniZeke Alton · Giovan TomassoniNick Monteleone · ManciniMatt Curtin · ToppaBjorn Johnson · Pope Paul VRay Abruzzo · Pope Clement VIIIWritten by Richard VetereExecutive Produced byJack Levy, Shaan Sharma, and Mark KnellTable 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 TRAILERToday 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 SommersStarring Patty McCormack as Ada Wells and Dan Lauria as DA Harvey DavisEverything 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 ElmalehTable 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.