Gayle Rankin

On an Orkney isle, siblings Isla and Sandy survive by hunting seabirds, retelling the stories of their ancestors, and defending the isle from dreaded "Incomers". Their world is upended with the arrival of an awkward council worker who has come to uproot them from their homeland.

The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to find a place to heal. But someone — or something — from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her, and what begins as simmering dread becomes a fully-formed nightmare, inhabited by her darkest memories and fears.

A self-destructive punk rocker struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.

An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.

Kenneth Feinberg, a powerful D.C. lawyer appointed Special Master of the 9/11 Fund, fights off the cynicism, bureaucracy, and politics associated with administering government funds and, in doing so, discovers what life is worth.

A young woman suffering from heroin addiction and living in one of downtown Los Angeles' many Single Room Occupancy hotels, receives an invite to her estranged 4-year-old daughter's birthday party.

Kyle and Mike are best friends who share a close bond — until Mike sleeps with Kyle’s fiancée. A stormy but enduring relationship ensues between Kyle, with limitless patience, and Mike, who only lives his life by sowing discord in that of others, across many years of laughter, heartbreak, and rage.

A stunning cancer diagnosis spurs Abbie to seek a future girlfriend for fiancé and childhood sweetheart Sam, who's clueless when it comes to dating.

Long-term couple Owen and Hallie are breaking up—or maybe not?—and just as their relationship reaches a turning point, Matt and Willa embark on a romance of their own.

While grieving for the loss of their mother, the Connolly sisters suddenly find they have a crime to cover up, leading them deep into the underbelly of their salty Maine fishing village.

In the Scottish village of Arberloch, Kenneth, a grieving tour guide, is devoted to preserving the legacy of the town's sole historical figure—eighteenth-century inventor Sir Douglas Weatherford. But when a fantasy series chooses Arberloch as its filming location, and the town turns its back on Weatherford in favour of fan culture, Kenneth descends into madness.

Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull" is interpreted by a handful of top-shelf stage actors from New York City as they converge in an upstate lakeside retreat. Surrounded by a menagerie of paper lanterns, circus tents, ten-foot tall puppets and floating furniture, the players merge with the reckless choices of their characters.

A young woman returns to her birthplace after her father's death and unearths distant memories and long-buried secrets that change everything she thought she knew about her family, past and herself.

Today is Jimmy's last day alive. His Alzheimer's is worsening, so he's decided to die like he has lived - with intention, humor, and zest. In his last day on Earth, Jimmy will show an obituary writer, his death doula, his estranged brother, his caretaker, a surreal being, and the guests at his fabulous FUN-eral, that perhaps the art of living is the art of dying.

A weekend getaway for a few friends at a snowy hotel becomes a psychological tailspin and bloody nightmare.

21 monologues written by American playwrights form a sort of fractured portrait of the American collective psyche. Ranging from the sad to the hilarious, from the angry to the tentatively celebratory, many of the major and recurrent issues associated with our fraught but beloved union are reconsidered with elegance, wit, brutal honesty, and a little outright insanity.

Actor Oscar Isaac takes on the iconic role of Shakespeare's Danish prince in an intimate look at his preparation and performance at NYC's Public Theater.

A woman is confronted by a stranger, who believes she’s been edited out of their story.

When his hockey career comes to a sudden end, Sam returns to his hometown and tries to escape into an earlier, simpler time in his life.