Sorry for the trouble! If the project itself has a start date in the future, that would prevent the actions from becoming available, even if they had a start date in the past...
Another possibility would be that the project was set to "On Hold" or "Dropped", I suppose; is the project icon badged with a pause-button or "X" icon?
If that doesn't explain what you're seeing, it may help to send a few screenshots to the
support ninjas so we can sort out what's going on here.
It may help for you to include some screenshots of what you are seeing.
(You can take a screenshot by pressing command-shift-4, which will give you a selection cursor. Tap your Space key, click on the window you want to capture, and when you release the mouse the image will be saved to your desktop as 'Picture 1', 'Picture 2', etc.)