Melissa Etheridge Has Booked A Solo Off-Broadway Show

Melissa Etheridge’s one-woman show, which opens off-Broadway this spring, will introduce her music and personal stories to a new audience.

Beginning on October 13, there will be only 12 performances of “Melissa Etheridge: My Window – A Journey Through Life” at the midtown multi-stage venue New World Stages.

“While I’ve been telling my life stories for many years through my lyrics and concert tours, this will be something new for me,” Etheridge said in a statement.

“I’m excited to experience the mutual stimulation and profound bonding that only a small theatre can provide.” The end result will be fantastic.

Melissa Etheridge, the singer of “Come to My Window” and “I’m the Only One,” has a long history of theatrical interest; in fact, she took over for Billie Joe Armstrong in the Broadway production of the Green Day musical “American Idiot” for eight performances in early 2011.

The new show, like Bruce Springsteen’s recent Broadway run, will combine music and storytelling, “from tales of her childhood in Kansas to her groundbreaking career highlights – with all of life’s hits and deep cuts in between,” according to the producers.

Etheridge has battled breast cancer, come out at a time when the music industry was less accepting of homosexuality, and won an Oscar for writing the song “I Need to Wake Up” for the Al Gore documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.”

Etheridge and her wife, Linda Wallem-Etheridge, who also serves as showrunner for the Emmy-winning Showtime series “Nurse Jackie,” wrote the series. Amy Tinkham is the film’s director.

Etheridge will finish her One Way Out national concert tour and release her graphic novel “Heartstrings” with Z2 Comics before her performance in New York.

Many artists, including Sting, David Byrne, and Sara Bareilles, have graced the stages of New York City in their own shows, alongside Melissa Etheridge, Bruce Springsteen, and Louis Armstrong.