The playwright and TV writer Theresa Rebeck will write Showtime’s forthcoming Broadway series, which – if it gets picked up – will track the development of a musical and then actually mount the show, reports The Hollywood Reporter.

The series was the idea of Steven Spielberg, who is one of the executive producers.

Rebeck has written for "NYPD Blue," "L.A. Law" and "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," and her play, “The Understudy," is currently running off-Broadway, starring Julie White and Mark-Paul Gosselaar.

–Elizabeth Jensen