Exclusive | Steven Spielberg could be directing his first stage musical in NYC

E.T.phone Broadway?Oscar-winner Steven Spielberg could soon be directing a stage show — his first — here in New York, sources told The Post.A new musical put on by the Public Theater, the mysterious work is said to be currently being written by Jeanine Tesori and Tony Kushner.I hope it’s “Jaws!”.The acclaimed trio makes for a high-brow Venn diagram of collaborators.Kushner, the celebrated “Angels in America” playwright, penned the Spielberg films “Munich,” “Lincoln,” “West Side Story” and “The Fabelmans” — all Best Picture Oscar nominees (though just one hit).And, combining forces with “Kimberly Akimbo” composer Tesori, Kushner wrote the book and co-wrote the lyrics of the 2003 musical “Caroline, Or Change.” She was also the supervising vocal producer on Spielberg’s “West Side.”Details of their new project are scant.

Tesori has dealt with a complicated and secretive family before in Best Musical Tony winner “Fun Home.” Maybe this will be “The Fabelmans — On Ice!”.Or “Disclosure Day!” featuring a line of tap-dancing aliens shuffling off to Jupiter.I gather — and if Spielberg and Kushner’s screen collabs are any indication — it’s more “Caroline” than “Saving Private Ryan.”The Post has reached out to the Public for comment.What is known is that the show is meant to be timed to outgoing Public artistic director Oskar Eustis’ farewell, and would open sometime in 2027-2028, his final season. Sixty-eight-year-old Eustis, who recently told the New York Times, “I think the American nonprofit theater movement is over,” clearly wants to greet the apocalypse with a bang. During his 21 years in the top job, his theater’s shows “Hamilton,” “Hell’s Kitchen,” “Here Lies Love,” “Suffs” and plenty more have made the leap to Broadway — one much more successfully than the others.He used to get flack for his apparent obsession with it.

Spielberg’s show also surely would transfer...