Yes, fine, the title of the movie should have been Theatre Camp, and not Theater Camp. But if you can overlook that transgression and watch this mockumentary about a performance arts summer camp—which is now streaming free on Hulu—you’ll be treated to the funniest comedy of the year. Written by Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman, Ben Platt, and Noah Galvin, and co-directed by Gordon and Lieberman, Theater Camp is Christopher Guest meets Wet Hot American Summer. Everyone in the cast—Gordon, Platt, Galvin, Jimmy Tatro, Patti Harrison, Ayo Edebiri, and more—brings their A-game. The script is full of razor-sharp one-liners, and clearly benefitted from having all four writers on set for improv and punch-ups. It’s a hysterical evisceration of former “theater kids” that will hit particularly hard for anyone who spent the majority of their high school experience in the drama room.
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