The singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge’s theatrical memoir during which she weaves tales from her life will likely be staged on Broadway this fall, the manufacturing introduced Sunday.

Referred to as “My Window,” a reference to considered one of her hit songs, Etheridge’s present recounts the arc of her life and profession, from rising up in Kansas to reaching rock fame and popping out as a lesbian within the ’90s.

The present, which had a transient Off Broadway run final fall, was written by Etheridge and her spouse, Linda Wallem Etheridge, a tv producer and actor who helped create the TV collection “Nurse Jackie” and labored on “That ’70s Present.” The manufacturing plans to start previews at Circle within the Sq. Theater on Sept. 14, with opening evening scheduled for Sept. 28.

Etheridge, 62, has liked theater since childhood (“‘Godspell’ simply set me on hearth,” she stated final week), and carried out briefly within the rock musical “American Fool” in 2011. She had lengthy wished to write down for Broadway, she stated, and so she was delighted to see the trade embrace Bruce Springsteen’s manufacturing, which she seen as setting an instance for productions by musicians which might be half live performance, half storytelling.

“I’ve been in entrance of audiences for 40 years, and I like to speak,” Etheridge stated. “I take pleasure in story and drama, and I’ve at all times introduced that into my music.”

Plus, she joked, “It saves on remedy.”

The present, directed by Amy Tinkham, verges into deeply private territory for Etheridge, together with when she discusses the dying of her 21-year-old son from opioid habit.

“It actually helped me to only say it time and again,” Etheridge stated. “I discovered it liberating, truly, to be very open about my life.”

In between the recollections, Etheridge performs her hits, akin to “Come to My Window” and “Carry Me Some Water,” in addition to snatches of extra obscure titles, together with the primary songs she wrote as a baby. At the moment, Etheridge is determining what to chop; the Off Broadway present was three hours, together with an intermission, and the singer stated the Broadway model will almost certainly be a few half-hour shorter.

The manufacturing plans to run via Nov. 19.