Review Roundup: THE YEAR TO COME at La Jolla Playhouse

THE YEAR TO COME is now open at La Jolla Playhouse! Every New Year's Eve a family gathers in their Florida backyard to ring in the coming year. In between dips in the pool, politically incorrect banter and a highly-anticipated onion dip, their relationships grow and fracture in moments that become family legend. Unfolding backwards in time, The Year to Come is a funny, touching and relatable world premiere that shows how the promise of our future is shaped by the lens of our past.

Rising playwright Lindsey Ferrentino introduces us to a distinctly American family whose evolution mirrors the turbulence of the 21st century.

Tickets start at $46
A limited number of Area 3 - $20 tickets for The Year to Comeare made available one week before the first performance.

For tickets and more visit https://lajollaplayhouse.org/show/the-year-to-come/

Let's see what the critics have to say!

Wleton Jones, San Diego Story: Christopher Acebo's scenery is dutifully dull, blended neatly with Lap Chi Chu's lighting to suggest the humidity and staleness of Florida. But the costumes by Dede Ayite, not to mention the bodies within them, are keenly accurate accounts of the difference between a New Year's Eve in Florida and the same date in, oh, say California.

Pat Launer, Times of San Diego: It's a strong production for a new work, but the play needs tightening and a stronger focus on the deeper, more serious themes rather than its easy-laugh, superficial ones.

E.H. Reiter, BroadwayWorld: This new work can use some editing; the opening monologue doesn't add anything to the story, the vultures seem like they were added solely to have something to talk about. (Or potentially keep people from moving to Florida. Who wants to live where vultures crash through your porch screens?) Some scenes could be cut entirely to make room for other and more interesting scenes play out.

James Herbert, San Diego Tribune: As with most new plays - never mind those as ambitious as this one - "The Year to Come" has some rough edges. A plot point involving vultures feels a little pushily metaphorical, and Pam invokes an overused trope about a frog in a pot of water at the top of the show.

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