TICKETS for the Newcastle Theatre Royal spring season are on sale now for a quartet of rather special productions.

These are the criticallyacclaimed new stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s enthralling novel To Kill a Mockingbird from Regent’s Park Theatre (April 20-25); another adaptation of a best-selling novel, Dead Simple (May 26-30), is based on the work of crime writer Peter James. Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest (June 8-13), stars David Suchet as Lady Bracknell. Early booking is advisable for this one, as it is for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, set to visit (Jan 26-Feb 7) on its first UK tour. Simon Stephens’ adaptation of Mark Haddon’s best-selling novel received seven Olivier Awards in 2013 including Best New Play. It also won the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Theatre and has been seen by over 200,000 people during its run in the West End.

Nostalgia does the hippy-hippy shake to the Beatles in Dreamboats and Miniskirts (Jan 20-24).More music from Oklahoma (June 23-27) and Opera North are back with the profoundly moving La Traviata (Nov 12-14 this year and March 4-6).

Mozart’s effervescent comedy The Marriage of Figaro (March 5-7). The company’s first ever production of The Coronation of Popea (Nov 15).

Revivals of The Bartered Bride (Nov 11-13) and Falla’s exuberant La Vida Breve which is presented as a double-bill with a new staging of Opera North’s production of Puccini’s comic opera, Gianni Schicchi (March 3).

Tickets already on sale include Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap (Sept 1 - 6). The National Theatre’s award-winning comedy One Man, Two Guvnors is back for the second time, July 28 to August 2, following a sell-out first visit to Newcastle.

For dance lovers, Northern Ballet’s new adaptation of Cinderella set in imperial Russia (Oct 21 - 24) and Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures will join young talent from the North-East in an extraordinary adaptation of William Golding’s classic novel, Lord of the Flies (Nov 5 - 8).

Booking is open for The Bodyguard (April 1-18) and Al Murray aka The Pub Landlord with One Man, One Guvnor (Feb 8).

Younger audiences will love Peppa Pig’s Big Splash (Aug 30–31), Dinosaur Zoo (Oct 30 – Nov 1) and not forgettingblockbuster Shrek The Musical (March 11–29).

With 60,000 tickets already sold for the Theatre Royal’s pantomime Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Nov 25-Jan 18) best get your tickets soon. Go to theatreroyal.co.uk or box office: 08448-112-121.