The Yvonne Arnaud Theatre is opening the national tours of both Alan Ayckbourn's seventy-sixth play Surprises and also Yes, Prime Minister as writers of the classic BBC series reunite. Both these plays began life at Chichester Festival Theatre and, it seems, have been in production ever since.
The season also features West End hits Abigail's Party and The Woman in Black, murder mysteries Cadfael and Agatha Christie's Go Back For Murder, as well as powerful dramas Birdsong and Rutherford and Son.
There's also time to cath the traditional family pantomime Aladdin starring Susie Blake as the Genie of the Lamp, which runs until Sunday, January 13.
Three comedians will take to the stage to tickle your funny bone when comedy club Jongleurs appears for one night only on 16 January.
Spring Awakening (Thursday 17 to Saturday 19 January) is German dramatist Frank Wedekind's first major play and a seminal work in the modern history of theatre, tackling the sexually oppressive culture of turn of the century Germany and offers a vivid criticism of the erotic fantasies it breeds.
Alan Ayckbourn's Surprises is from Wednesday 23 January to Saturday, 2 February. Featuring amorous strangers and quests for Mr Right, love stories yet to happen in a future filled with surprises.
Anthony Jay and Jonathan Lynn's Yes, Prime Minister is from Thursday 7 to Saturday 16 February coming direct from the West End. The original writers of the classic BBC TV series have reunited for this anniversary production with Michael Fenton Stevens playing Prime Minister Jim Hacker and Crispin Redman taking the role of Cabinet Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby.
The powerful drama Birdsong, a story of love, courage and sacrifice, adapted from Sebastian Faulks's bestselling novel, runs from February 25 to March 2 and Rutherford and Son provides an unflinching portrayal of an industrial Edwardian family on the brink of collapse from May 14to 18.
One-night appearances include An Evening with Ken Livingstone, Dr Phil Hammond's Rude Health Show, Harriet Walker and Henry Goodman in Nocturne and Timothy West in Intimate Letters.
For younger theatre-goers, Farm Boy, Michael Morpurgo's sequel to the award-winning War Horse, runs from February 18 to 19 and Andy and Mike's Tick Tock Time Machine is on February 22, with the Youth Theatre presenting JM Barrie's Peter Pan from July 4 to 8.