Starting off the season will be a new adaptation of the classic French novel "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" (made into the film "Dangerous Liasons"). Giles Havergal will helm her world premiere stagework for ACT. Artistic director Carey Perloff then takes on directing duties for stagings of Samuel Beckett's classic Waiting For Godot and Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House.

The world premiere of Sherry Shephard-Massat's Levee James will play the Bay Area stage. Set in a racially-charged 1920s southern town, a woman revisits an old passion at the home of her brother-in-law.

Next, in association with Washington's Seattle Repertory Theatre, ACT will present the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's production of William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life. Tina Landau helms the 1940 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama set right in San Francisco at the end of the Great Depression.

Actress Olympia Dukakis ("Moonstruck," Rose) returns to the stage in A Mother. The world premiere of a new adaptation by Constance Congdon of Gorky's "Vassa Zheleznova," is directed by Perloff. Dukakis plays the title character Vassa — a strong matriarch who fights to keep her business and family afloat as her husband fights to stay alive.

One more production is yet to be announced in the seven play season. The lineup for now follows: (subject to change)