“Hester Street” is heading to the stage. Playwright Sharyn Rothstein is penning a stage adaptation of the Oscar-nominated 1975 film, The New York Times reports.

The film stars Carol Kane (“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”) and Steven Keats (“Black Sunday”) as Jewish immigrants who move to the Lower East Side of NYC from Europe in 1896. The change in scenery — and culture — takes a toll on the married couple, whose relationship begins to disintegrate. Written and directed by Joan Micklin Silver (“Crossing Delancey”), the drama is based on Abraham Cahan’s 1986 novella “Yekl.”

“Hester Street” marked Silver’s feature directorial debut. “I came of age for film at a time when sexism was pretty strong,” Silver has said. “Although I could get work as a writer, I couldn’t get work as a director at all. I had the experience of watching young men who had made shorts as I had — prize-winning shorts as I had — moving on to direct films and I couldn’t do it.” (Unfortunately, Silver’s experience remains all too common.)

Rothstein explained that she feels a personal connection to the story of “Hester Street” in a statement. “My great-grandmother came to America alone as a 16-year-old girl and raised her family just north of Delancey Street,” she said. “It’s a story as old as our nation and just as relevant today.” “By the Water,” Rothstein’s most recent play, was staged at the Manhattan Theater Club in 2014.

Stage readings of “Hester Street” are planned for 2017, and the hope is that the project will eventually move to Broadway.