An Inspector Calls Playhouse, London. Tel: 020 7494 5372
Antony and Cleopatra RSC Royal Shakespeare Theatre, in rep from April 11. Tel: 01789 403403
The Cherry Orchard Glasgow Citizens’, March 8-30. Tel: 0141 429 0022
The Duchess of Malfi Salisbury Playhouse, March 14-April 6. Tel: 01722 320333
Educating Rita York Theatre Royal, February 14-March 9. Tel: 01904 623568
Hamlet RSC Barbican, in rep to April 2. Tel: 020 7638 8891
Julius Caesar RSC Barbican, in rep January 24-April 6. Tel: 020 7638 8891
King Lear Almeida Theatre Company, January 31-April 20. Tel: 020 7359 4404
Lord of the Flies Pilot Theatre tour to Reading, Jersey, Brighton, Southend-on-Sea, Chester, Liverpool, February 5-March 23.
Macbeth Clwyd Theatr Cymru, March 7-30. Tel: 01352 755114. Northern Broadsides tour to Halifax, Wellingborough, Skipton, Worksop, Scarborough, Leeds, Salford, Bury St Edmunds, Liverpool, Bradford, Newcastle-under-Lyme.
The Merchant of Venice RSC Stratford-upon-Avon Swan, to January 19. Tel: 01789 403403. Then tour to Ellesmere Port, Melton Mowbray, Littleport, Truro, Dawlish, Workington, Coulby Newham, Cradley Heath, Portsmouth, Burgess Hill, Forres, January 29-May 11
A Midsummer Night’s Dream RSC Royal Shakespeare Theatre, February 1-March 23. Tel: 01789 403403; then tour: Bradford, Stoke on Trent, Norwich, Salford, Plymouth, Woking; then London Barbican from April 17. Tel: 020 7638 8891; Manchester Royal Exchange, March 6-April 20. Tel: 0161 833 9833
1984 Northern Stage tour to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Basingstoke, Dundee, Preston, Mold, February 12-March 30
Of Mice and Men Bolton Octagon, January 31-February 23. Tel: 01204 520661; York Theatre Royal, February 26-March 16. Tel: 01904 623568
Richard III Sheffield Crucible, March 13-April 10. Tel: 0114 249 6000
A Streetcar Named Desire Edinburgh Royal Lyceum, February 15-March 15. Tel: 0131 248 4848
The Taming of the Shrew Nottingham Playhouse, February 8-March 2. Tel: 0115 941 9419
The Tempest RSC London Roundhouse, in rep from April 19. Tel: 01789 403403
To Kill A Mockingbird Clwyd Theatr Cymru, March 6-9. Tel: 01352 755114; Cardiff New, March 12-16. Tel 029 2087 8889
Twelfth Night RSC Barbican, in rep to March 9. Tel: 020 7638 8891; Cardiff Sherman, January 29-Feb 2. Tel: 029 2064 6900
The Winter’s Tale RSC London Roundhouse, in rep from March 28. Tel: 01789 403403
The Woman in Black London Fortune Theatre. Tel: 020 7836 2238
Timothy Ramsden
