Entry No. 11 — the Sacramento file — filed under: art

Hawthorne's Hideout

You go looking for the door and find what one reviewer called "a mysterious door that looks like it leads to a secret gathering for the occult" beneath Stage Nine Entertainment. Descend the spiral staircase and you're in an actor-led, animatronic-populated Prohibition-and-pulp-explorer world built with Garner Holt Productions — the same shop that builds Disney's animatronics — centered on a fictional explorer named Elias Hawthorne and two totem spirits, Tika and Magma, who talk back.

The move: Book the guided seating (it's dinner-theater structured, not a walk-in dive) and let the actors pull you into Hawthorne's backstory over Polynesian-inspired plates and cocktails — go hunting afterward for the Easter eggs hidden around the room.

📍 Old Sacramento
💸 $$
⚡ Up for anything
🌗 Indoors

Where: 102 K Street, Sacramento, CA 95814

Hours: Added 2026-07-20 — confirm current hours before you go.

#unmarked door #immersive #animatronics #underground #tiki-adjacent #reservation-required

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Further reading: Official site · sacramentolivingwell.com · comstocksmag.com

last checked: 2026-07-20