The Prince of Atlantis marks the first time that Adam (SCR's Brooklyn Boy) and Matthew (SCR's Our Mother's Brief Affair) appear on stage together. "Adam Arkin plays older brother Joey, who finds himself in a minimum-security prison just as the son he gave up for adoption writes to say he'd like to meet him," according to SCR notes. "Matthew Arkin is Kevin, the younger brother assigned to keep the son from discovering the truth."

Dámaso Rodriguez will direct the play, which also stars Michael Weston ("House") and Amy Landecker (A Serious Man).

Shelley Butler (SCR's A Wrinkle in Time)  directs Catherine Trieschmann's How the World Began, with Kirsten Potter playing a teacher "who ignites a controversy with an off-hand remark in biology class." Jarrett Sleeper is the student upset by her remark, and Joe Spano is his grandfather.

David Chambers (SCR's The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow) directs The Droll {Or, a Stage-Play about the END of Theatre} by Meg Miroshnik, a graduate student at the Yale School of Drama. "Set in a world reminiscent of Puritanical England, it imagines a theatrical troupe trying to mount a secret production of Hamlet," according to SCR. The players include Tessa Auberjonois, Nathan Baesel, Matt McGrath and Laura Heisler, among others.

Loretta Greco (SCR's Goldfish) directs Annapurna, Sharr White's drama about "a dying poet endeavoring to understand why his wife disappeared 20 years earlier — and why she's suddenly come back."  Octavio Solis directs a musical he's written with Adam Gwon entitled Cloudlands, "in which an 18-year-old embarks on a dangerous path after she learns her mother is having an affair." Courtney Stokes plays the teenager; Heather Ayres is her mother. Daniel Guzman, Ethan Le Phong and Robert Mammana round out the cast.

Anchoring the 14th annual Pacific Playwrights Festival are the continuing full productions of Lauren Gunderson's Silent Sky, "a beautiful historical drama based on the life of turn-of-the-century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt," and Itamar Moses' Completeness, "a romantic comedy about two graduate students who find that love is the most complicated algorithm of all."

The festival runs April 29-May 1. For schedule information and tickets, visit www.scr.org.