Visalia Fox Theatre, Historic movie theater in downtown Visalia, United States.

The Visalia Fox Theatre is an atmospheric movie palace in downtown Visalia, California, seating 1,275. Its interior imitates a temple garden in India or South Asia: a ceiling dotted with stars that flicker during shows, painted murals and plaster "temples" or "pagodas" flanking the stage, and a hand-sculpted genie, a fearsome face between two elephants, above the proscenium arch. Plaster and paint, not marble or gold leaf, create the effect.

Designed by Los Angeles architect Clifford Balch with engineer Floyd E. Stanbery, the Visalia Fox opened on February 27, 1930, costing $225,000. It showed first-run films as a single-screen house until 1976, when Mann Theatres split it into three screens. Mann closed it in late 1996, and after a community restoration it reopened on November 20, 1999, with Marvin Hamlisch playing a sold-out house.

The Fox hosts nearly all Tulare County Symphony performances, and classic films return to its screen on occasion, many of them first shown there during their original run. The building's Indian temple-garden interior, with its star-dotted ceiling, was meant as a fantastical escape for Roaring Twenties and Depression-era audiences.

The theater is located in the heart of downtown Visalia and is easy to reach on foot from nearby parking areas or local transit stops. Since events run throughout the year and vary in type, checking the current program in advance makes for a smoother visit.

The ceiling above the auditorium is designed to look like an open night sky, with small temple structures and a hand-carved genie figure placed directly over the stage. This genie is one of very few such decorative elements still surviving in an American movie theater from that era.