About the Fox Oakland Theater [See on Map] Built in 1928, the 3,800-seat Fox is one of the West Coast's largest and among America's finest Art Deco movie palaces. The theater closed its doors in 1965 but it is now being renovated as a performing arts center and future home of the Oakland School of the Arts. A restored Fox will be a dazzling new venue for Oakland and will form a cornerstone to a newly revitalized uptown neighborhood. The Partners in Preservation grant is being used to restore the Art Deco ticket booth at the main entrance of the theater. The project is nearing...
Recently submitted by Arcadia, East Bay Fox Theatre in featured in new pictorial history book! Check out the Fox Theatre and old historic pictures of it as it is featured on the cover of the newly released Theatres of Oakland by locals Jennifer Dowling and Jack Tillmany.
