Lost In Found

A year ago we opened the doors of Ashlar Hall for the first time in 17 years, inviting guests into a magical world of dance and music! Rites of Spring 🌸 To everyone who came and everyone who helped, thank you! 🌿🌿We dream of the future when we can gather in such beauty again! 💫✨

Some of our favorite photo-booth moments from our Paranormal Popup Bar!

THANK YOU MEMPHIS!!
The Parting was a huge success!
We love our city! Thank you for being a home to all of these incredible artists and giving us a loving audience who embraces our *somewhat* unconventional approaches to performance.

Ultimately- what we do is about connection and community!!

Final Night of THE PARTING

Don’t miss the opportunity to encounter the menacing and the macabre characters that lurk around the Evergreen Theatre.

Inside out, outside in.
This actress will sacrifice anything for a good performance.

Two more evenings to check out-
THE PARTING
With in our Paranormal Popup Bar!

Take part in the mayhem at the Evergreen Theatre!

Lost in Found is thrilled to have in our Paranormal Popup Bar TONIGHT!

$5 cover
Or included in the ticket price for the Parting

Don’t miss out!

The paranormal have come out to play. Come hear the stories of the Evergreen Theatre!

Three more nights to catch THE PARTING! $30 link in the bio!

“I tried to hide my eyes, but I couldn’t...I felt that this was it, my life was over, I was going to be punished for what I’d done.”

Check out all the inspiring and generous folks who gifted us with their creativity, time, and energy!!

THANK YOU!!

The Parting Acknowledgements | lostinfound A lot of creativity, time and energy went into creating this immersive event. We'd like to sincerely thank our tech team, actors, volunteers and every organization that lended a hand to make this possible! 

The Parting is back TONIGHT!! And we’ve got Karaoke!

Get a little scared and then sing your cares away!!
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After a thrilling first weekend of The Parting! We are back on tomorrow through Saturday!

Book your ticket now! 7pm, 8pm, 9pm & 10pm

WKNO CULTURE DESK REVIEWS

“The Parting”
Running through Oct. 19 at Evergreen Theatre
www.lostinfound901.com

⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Stars

Old theaters have ghosts. It's common knowledge. Just ask anyone assigned to lock up a theater at midnight.
There's a reason somebody invented the “ghost light,” a bare lightbulb on a pole that sits center stage and stays lit when the building is empty. Ostensibly, it's to prevent injuries in the dark. In reality, it's so ghosts don't touch the back of your neck when you're trying to leave a dark auditorium; everybody knows that.
All of this is to say: theaters and supernatural tales go together like Autumn and Halloween.
A new site-specific immersive theater project called “The Parting” by Lost In Found 901, a group run by producer Julia Hinson, offers a paranormal performance by the theater itself -- in this case Evergreen Theatre -- where viewers get a guided tour of the building while learning of its terrifying past as a hotspot of occult activity.
Hinson blends fact and fiction as she ushers audience members in small groups into the building.
“Here’s what you need to know,” she prefaces, explaining the Evergreen’s true historic credentials. Built just before the Great Depression as a movie house called The Ritz, it went through decades of different owners and name changes until 1981, when Circuit Playhouse transformed the space into a live performance venue. That’s when the sloping single-screen auditorium was sectioned into what you see today, with a stage, rehearsal spaces, dressing rooms and the Basement of Death where…
We’re getting ahead of ourselves.
Hinson describes this walk-through experience as a “promenade” that reveals a little more information with each room. The plot takes us back to when the theater was known as “The Guild” (the name is factual). However, it's suggested that the marquee has a more sinister connotation, i.e. a fraternity of people with certain claims to power.
“The Parting” is not a “haunted house” attraction, which may be disappointing for those looking for ambush scares and shrieks. It’s an artistic and story-oriented work, set in a haunting atmosphere. The “immersive” style is similar to Hinson’s last sensational effort at Ashlar Hall, called “Rites of Spring,” where guests wandered around in a fantasy realm with fairies and fauns.
Written by a quartet of local actors -- Jeff Posson, Renee Davis Brame, Aaron Brame and Gabe Beutel-Gunn -- the story is nonlinear, and piecing the details together is part of the fun, like being a detective in a supernatural thriller. As we explore the nooks and crannies of the theater, tension builds with each increasingly unsettling piece of information.
Just as in a haunted house, lighting and sound play a major psychological role in “The Parting,” and designers Jeremy and Kristen Fisher have certainly made Halloween magic throughout the building.
Shadowy old films flicker nostalgically, occult altars glow ominously, and the dark backstage corridors seem even more nebulous in a thin veil of theatrical fog.
Hinson and her team embrace various storytelling techniques and performance styles, including dance -- another refreshing way “The Parting” engages the macabre imagination.
The theater itself provides some of the most compelling drama. Climbing up a narrow stairway into the old projection room feels like trespassing on some inner sanctum of yesteryear. A projectionist, played by Shaleen Cholera, confronts us with a crazed, in-your-face confession straight out of The Twilight Zone.
I hardly expected dramatically insightful performances to come from a Halloween-themed show, but Natalie Jones’ take on an actress-turned-bloodthirsty occultist made me never again want to enter that claustrophobic dressing room without a handful of burning sage.
Several times in the show, we are warned of the theater’s basement. A tour of the Evergreen Theatre -- not to mention the story’s climax -- wouldn’t be complete without it.
The end of “The Parting,” like the final moments of “The Blair Witch Project,” comes quickly and leaves more questions than answers.
Fortunately, the company provides a Halloween party room and a full bar in the Varnell Building next door where discussions are encouraged while dancing to "The Monster Mash."
The walk-through takes about 45 minutes, and while the $30 ticket price may seem a little steep (in addition to the drinks you’ll want to partake of), the experience is inventive enough to warrant it.
After all, it’s no small feat to transform the entire building into a performance space. And for fans of immersive theater, it’s a small price to pay for a rare treat.
--C.B.

Halloween spirits rise at Elmwood Cemetery, Evergreen Theatre, Historical Haunts - The Daily Memphian Memphians in the mood for a good ghost story this Halloween season can choose among several interactive and cultural ways to make the most of the spirited holiday.