Theater Camp Review – A Fun-Filled Madcap Adventure

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Category: Film

Published on Monday, 03 July 2023 15:32

Written by Janet Walker

Theater Camp, from Searchlight Pictures, presents a fun summertime comedy as the AdirondACTS theatrical summer camp is missing their fearless leader and success of the season and survival of the camp is left to her ill-equipped son.

The film opens with the announcement that theater camp director and founder Joan, played by Amy Sedaris falls into a coma, and is unable to lead the troops with her usual flair and style. To keep the summer camp running, her clueless "crypto-bro" son Troy, played by Jimmy Tatro, is tasked with managing.

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While he is extremely well-meaning, he is unequipped to handle the one hundred and one things that are falling and failing around him while the camp is held together by duct tape. To keep the thespian paradise running, he is forced to make decisions without the wise counsel of his mother.

As the title suggests theater camp is for the budding performers, and as the film progresses, we understand, for these dedicated children every effort is made to advance their performance skills through dance classes, stage performances, straight plays, and musicals, singing lessons, and mask classes, where the dramatic mask allows the performer to release their inner thespian and become the star hiding behind the restrain of their inhibitions.

Camp counselors Amos, played by Ben Platt, and Rebecca-Diane, played by Molly Gordon, as well as the band of eccentric teachers, with total seriousness explain to the young campers the grueling schedule and dedicated effort that will be necessary as they find that inner diva and prepare for the end of camp performance.

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Unbeknownst to the campers, the camp is confronting financial ruin and Troy, who is duped by the Honey pot scam, becomes entangled with a dubious banker who sees the AdirondACTS camp land as a gold mine for a developer.

As it is a theatrical kids camp, the audience is treated to many great performances by up-and-coming talent who respond to the eccentric acting teachers and counselors who return each year with a passion to instill in these hopefuls the truth of the preforming life.

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Theater Camp, and first-time directors Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman, deliver an entertaining, genuine, hilarious summer camp dramady. Throughout the film we understand the importance of exposing children to the arts and allowing them to explore the life of a performer and become, even for one summer, a part of something great.

Theater Camp, the Sundance Film Festival 2023 U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award Ensemble Winner, deserves a standing ovation! Entertaining, wacky, a madcap adventure.

Theater Camp opens July 14, 2023, exclusively in theaters. See it!

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Country: U.S.

Language: English.

Runtime: 94 minutes.

Release date: July 14, 2023.

Director: Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman.

Producer: Jessica Elbaum, Samie Kim Falvey, Erick Feig, Will Ferrell, Noah Galvin, Molly Gordon, Julia Hammer, Ryan Heller, Nick Lieberman, Ben Platt, Maria Zuckerman.

Writer: Noah Galvin, Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman, Ben Platt.

Cast: Ben Platt, Molly Gordon, Noah Galvin, Jimmy Tatro, Caroline Aaron, Ayo Edebiri, Nathan Lee Graham, Owen Thiele, Amy Sedaris, Patti Harrison, Bailee Bonick, Kyndra Sanchez, Donovan Colan, Vivienne Sachs, Alan Kim, Alexander Bello, Luke Islam, Jack Sobolewski, Dean Scott Vazquez, Quinn Titcomb, Madisen Lora, Max Sheldon, Tyrone Mitchell Henderson, Priscilla Lopez, David Rasche.