As previously reported, David Cromer (Our Town, Brighton Beach Memoirs) will stage the drama that will begin performances Off-Broadway Feb. 11, 2010, at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater with an official opening March 8, 2010.

In addition to Clark (The Light in the Piazza, Prayer for My Enemy), Hurt (Top Girls, Benefactors) and Topol (Awake and Sing!, Omnium Gatherum), the LCT production will also feature Kate Blumberg (Farragut North, Almost An Evening), Rod McLachlan (Our Town, Observe The Sons of Ulster), Susan Pourfar (The Singing Forest, The Hiding Place), Will Rogers (Chair, From Up Here), Michael Siberry (The Frogs, Spamalot) and Henry Vick (Three Musketeers, Macbeth).

The new play by Australian playwright Bovell ("Lantana," "Strictly Ballroom") is described as "an epic drama, set in England and Australia, that traces a family's history spanning 80 years."

When the Rain Stops Falling received its Australian premiere in 2008 at the Adelaide Festival, and was later produced by the Sydney Theater Company and in a West End run at the Almeida Theatre in London.