ASTORIA, NY.- The HBO series The Sopranos (1999–2007) reshaped American television, setting a new standard for long-form storytelling and character-driven drama. The series won 21 Primetime Emmy Awards and was nominated for a total of 112. This February, Museum of the Moving Image will honor The Sopranos with an exhibition and three special screenings featuring showrunner and series creator David Chase and cast members Steven Van Zandt, Dominic Chianese, Edie Falco, and Annabella Sciorra in person.

Stories and Sets for The Sopranos

The exhibition Stories and Sets for The Sopranos, opening February 14 in the Museum’s Amphitheater Gallery, centers materials that trace how the series’ narrative and visual worlds were established. Drawing from David Chase’s personal archive, the exhibition features scripts, notes, and research that documents the development of the celebrated series’ story arcs and character trajectories as it moved from a pilot into the first season. It also examines the design of the four principal sites where the series’ central action unfolds—Dr. Melfi’s office, the Soprano home, the Bada Bing strip club, and Satriale’s Pork Store—through a presentation of concept art, construction drawings, and ground plans by production designers Edward Pisoni (pilot) and Dean Taucher (season one) that show how practical decisions translated ideas into physical space.

Celebrating The Sopranos Season 3: Three Evenings with David Chase and Special Guests

From February 26–28, the Museum will present a series of three events, each featuring a screening of an episode from the groundbreaking and masterful season three of The Sopranos followed by a conversation with Chase and members of the cast in person.

Debuting in early 2001, season three of The Sopranos upended all expectations and ideas of what this already brilliant show could be. Digging deeper than ever before into the dark recesses, enigmas, and contradictions of his characters, especially James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano, Chase and his team constructed a sublimely provocative run of episodes that self-reflexively encouraged viewers to reckon with their own relationships to these difficult characters—asking what we desire and want out of serial drama.