Molly Smith, artistic director of Arena Stage in Washington, DC, will direct the 90-minute dramatic comedy, which will mark the Broadway debut of playwright Coble. Broadway theatre and dates will be announced at a later time.

The Velocity of Autumn, according to press notes, "swirls around 80-year-old Alexandra, an artist facing the indignities of old age and her family’s insistence on moving her to a nursing home.  With nothing to lose, Alexandra has locked herself in her Brooklyn brownstone with a pile of Molotov cocktails and is now in a standoff with her children and the police.  When Alexandra is visited by her youngest son Chris - who has climbed into her second floor window ending a 20-year absence from her life - in the blink of an eye the emotional bombs start detonating."

Parsons will star as Alexandra with Spinella as her son Chris.

The production will have scenic design by Eugene Lee, costume design by Linda Cho, lighting design by Howell Binkley and sound design by Darron L. West. 

Autumn had its world premiere at Boise Contemporary Theater in Idaho in April 2011, and played to sold-out audiences in Cleveland’s Beck Center for the Arts in Ohio in April 2012. Playwright Coble's plays have been produced Off-Broadway, throughout the U.S., and on several continents, including productions at The Kennedy Center, Denver Center Theatre Company, New York and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, Alliance Theatre, The Cleveland Play House, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, Asolo Repertory, Indiana Repertory, Coterie Theatre, Great Lakes Theater Festival, Stages Repertory and The Contemporary American Theatre Festival.  His plays include Bright Ideas (Manhattan Class Company, directed by John Rando), Natural Selection (Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival, directed by Marc Masterson), The Dead Guy, A Girl's Guide to Coffee and The Giver. Coble has been recognized for his work with an Emmy nomination, the AT&T Onstage Award, the National Theatre Conference Playwriting Award, the AATE Distinguished Play Award for Best Adaptation, an NEA Playwright in Residence Grant and a TCG Extended Collaboration Grant.

The play will be produced by HOP Theatricals.