Steve Martin is enjoying his own theatrical renaissance. In Connecticut alone, his play The Underpants was given a stretchy new production by director Gordon Edelstein. The co-production played two Connecticut theaters this season, the Long Wharf and Hartford Stage.

Martin is currently on the road with his bluegrass band Steep Canyon Rangers and singer Edie Brickell, with a live rendition of their album Love Has Come for You. The act plays the Bushnell in Hartford June 19.

Now comes the news that the Love Has Come for You project, which combines songs and storytelling, has inspired a full-fledged musical, Bright Star, which will premiere at the Old Globe theater in San Diego, California.

Barry Edelstein—who’s not related to Gordon Edelstein but is the guy who first proposed that Martin adapt the Carl Sternheim play Die Hose into The Underpants, and directed its world premiere at Classic Stage Company in 2002—announced the musical, titled Bright Star, as part of his first full season as the Old Globe’s artistic director.

Another odd connection: A previous artistic director of the Old Globe is Darko Tresnjak, who now helms Hartford Stage.

Bright Star will be directed by Walter Bobbie. According to an Old Globe press release, the show features “25 new songs and tells a beguiling tale that unfolds in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina between 1923 and 1945. Billy Cane, a young soldier just home from World War II, meets Alice Murphy, the brilliant editor of a southern literary journal. Together they discover a powerful secret that alters their lives.”

Just to show that the old wise-and-crazy Steve Martin has not been subsumed by his bluegrass-banjoist, New Yorker-essayist personae, he is quoted in the press release thus:

“That our musical is premiering at the wonderful Old Globe in San Diego where Shakespeare first performed his plays fills me with humility.”

The Old Globe website, with a listing of its full 2014-15 season, is here.