BAM has just announced the lineup for this year’s Next Wave Festival. The season is particularly heavy on dance and there’s only two big theater offerings: Robert Lepage’s “Lipsynch” and Robert Wilson’s “Quartett.” (Granted, there’s sure to be theatrical elements in the neo-circus show “Inside Out,” by Sweden’s Cirkus Cirkörs, and in some of the multimedia-heavy music events.)

I tend to like Lepage (loved his “Damnation de Faust” at the Met last season for instance) but I don’t know much about “Lipsynch.” As it happens, though, I did see “Quartett” in Paris in 2006, in the same production coming to BAM. The play is Heiner Müller’s take on Choderlos de Laclos’ “Les Liaisons dangereuses” and focuses exclusively on Merteuil and Valmont.

Big draw for “Quartett”: The mighty Isabelle Huppert plays Merteuil. Let’s hope there are more surtitles this time, as I think many New Yorkers are still traumatized by Huppert’s last visit, “4:48 Psychose,” when director Claude Régy insisted on translating only about a quarter of the text — this in a show that’s practically a monologue delivered in a monotone while standing stock still.

(Fun factoid: Huppert created the role played by Marcia Gay Harden on Broadway in the Paris production of “God of Carnage.”)

Another powerhouse will visit BAM in the fall, though the show technically isn’t part of Next Wave: It’s Cate Blanchett in Liv Ullmann’s staging of “A Streetcar Named Desire” (November 27-December 20). After Hedda Gabler and now again with Blanche Dubois, Blanchett has the arduous task of making me forget Elizabeth Marvel in two Ivo van Hove productions at New York Theatre Workshop. If you saw them, particularly “Streetcar,” you’ll know Marvel’s take is hard to surpass.