Fox Theatre

A 4,665-seat Moorish-Egyptian movie palace on Peachtree Street, one of the most extravagant surviving 1920s atmospheric theatres in the country. The auditorium ceiling is painted with stars and moving clouds; the side walls mimic the courtyard of a fortress in Granada.

The Fox survived a near-demolition campaign in the 1970s and is now a working venue for touring Broadway shows, ballet, concerts, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Behind-the-scenes architectural tours run a few times a month. Catch a performance if you can.

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The Fox was commissioned as a Shriners temple in 1928 and built in a deliberately exotic Moorish-and-Egyptian Revival style, with a 4,675-seat auditorium designed to look like an Arabian courtyard under an artificial night sky. After the Shriners ran out of money it was sold to William Fox of Fox Films and reopened as a movie palace in 1929 — three weeks before the Wall Street Crash.