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Ladies like Amanda Wingfield, Tennessee Williams’ overbearing mama of The Glass Menagerie, ring a belle for Southern-bred actress Cherry Jones.

Some people are shocked to hear that for the first time in its 30-year history, the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge is producing a play by the great Southern writer Tennessee Williams.

Were Williams alive to see the new production by the American Repertory Theater, however, he might have turned to T. S. Eliot’s suggestion, in “Burnt Norton,” that “all time is eternally present.”

The A.R.T. production, in Tennessee Williams’s words, does not go to the moon. It goes much further.

Cherry Jones and director John Tiffany at Zero Church Street last month preparing for “Glass Menagerie,” which opens Saturday at ART’s Loeb Drama Center.