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The Fox Theatre is one of the most famous theaters in St. Louis, Missouri. "The Fabulous Fox" or "The Fox", as locals call it, is located in the arts district of the Grand Center area in Midtown St. Louis, one block north of Saint Louis University.

It was designed in the 1920s by an architect specializing in theaters, C. Howard Crane, in a style known as Siamese Byzantine. Reporters in 1929 described the Fox Theatres in St. Louis and Detroit as "awe-inspiringly fashioned after Hindoo (sic) Mosques of Old India, bewildering in their richness and dazzling in their appointments … striking a note that reverberates around the architectural and theatrical worlds." William Fox nicknamed the style the "Eve Leo Style" in tribute to his wife, who decorated the interior with furnishings, paintings and sculpture she had bought on her trips overseas.

Originally opened in 1929 by William Fox as a movie palace for silent films, the Fox has survived through the years, and is now a versatile theater.
When the theater opened on January 31, 1929 it was the second-largest theater in the United States, with 5,060 seats.

The Fox Theatre closed in March 1978 and was purchased by Fox Associates in 1981. The theater was restored at a price of at least $3 million dollars and in comparison, the Fox cost $6 million dollars to build in 1929. The Fox reopened in September 1982 with the musical Barnum. Its interior was patterned after its slightly larger architectural twin, the Detroit Fox Theatre.

The Fox currently seats 4,278 theatergoers plus 234 in the private Fox Club.

In September 2007, the venue celebrated 25 years since its re-opening with a concert featuring Brian Stokes Mitchell and Linda Eder and a day where the theatre showed movies in a throwback to its beginnings.