Georgia is still on our minds.

Designing Women creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason has adapted her popular series into a stage play premiering this summer in Arkansas, The New York Times reported this week.

Set at an Atlanta interior design firm, the Emmy-nominated CBS sitcom aired for seven seasons from 1986 to 1993. The original cast included Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Annie Potts, Jean Smart, and Meshach Taylor.

The play, also titled Designing Women, will bring the TV show's beloved characters into the modern era. It will run at TheaterSquared in Fayetteville.

“What I really wanted to do was take those women as we last saw them and set them down right now,” Bloodworth-Thomason tells the Times. “They’ll have the same history, be the same people, have the same attitudes, the same philosophies, but they’ll be talking about #MeToo and the Kardashians, and Donald Trump, and all that’s going on right now.”

The original Designing Women was also known for tackling hot political and social issues. Tony Goldwyn famously played one of the first gay primetime TV characters with AIDS in the 1987 episode “Killing All the Right People;” Bloodworth-Thomason, who wrote the episode, had lost her mother to the disease.

“It was way ahead of its time on all sorts of issues, whether it’s gay rights, reproductive rights, sexual harassment, gun control—a whole host of things that continue to be profoundly relevant,” says TheaterSquared executive director Martin Miller.

"It’s 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia, and Sugarbaker’s Design firm partners Julia, Suzanne, Mary Jo, and Charlene—roughly the same age as we last saw them—have become just as divided as the rest of the country," reads a press release for the production. "Sparked by the increasingly polarizing environment, the ladies well-documented political and philosophical differences have finally driven them to the brink of selling the business and going their separate ways."

"As they negotiate and seek a delicate rapprochement, the women will also have plenty to say about the tribalization of America, north vs. south, elites vs. non-elites, political correctness, out-of-control social media, Kardashian world dominance, and the Me Too movement."

“Designing Women has a special magic,” Bloodworth-Thomason says, “and a ubiquitous appeal. It would seem to be the perfect theatrical venue for sharing an evening of humor while sitting next to people you can’t stand.”

“This world premiere play is perfect for our moment, and for the American theatre,” Miller adds. “We’re thrilled to play a role in bringing this bold and incisive writer’s work to the stage. In our early conversations with fellow theatremakers—from non-profit peers to Broadway veterans—there’s also a great deal of excitement for the future life of the play.”

“Working with Linda and her husband, the producer and television director Harry Thomason, on the development of this timely, trenchant and deeply funny new play has been a standout experience,” says TheatreSquared artistic director Robert Ford. “Who wouldn’t want to know what Julia Sugarbaker has to say about our current state of affairs?”

The original series, which had been unavailable on streaming platforms, became available on Hulu last year. ABC has confirmed a Designing Women revival in the works with Bloodworth-Thomason at the helm.

Bloodworth-Thomason gave her blessing to a long-running theatrical drag parody, Designing Women Live, in Atlanta. In 2016 she wrote a new anti-Trump "Julia Sugarbaker" diatribe for Designing Women Live star Topher Payne.

Her other credits include the GLAAD Media Award-winning marriage equality documentary Bridegroom.

The Designing Women play will run August 12 through September 13 at TheatreSquared. Following the Arkansas premiere, the production will transfer to Alabama Shakespeare Festival and Dallas Theater Center.