As it looks somewhat different today, the Powell cannot be called a true restoration, but most of the original theatre has been preserved. The lobby is particularly fine. The Powell is strictly a concert hall, with a fixed orchestra shell on the stage. Offices now occupy the former fly space above.

The Kimball organ, with its rare four-manual console, was removed prior to the renovation and broken up. The console always bore a painted finish in the St. Louis Theatre, but it found its way to the Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, where its paint job was removed. A photograph of the console in natural wood can be seen on the cover of Theatre Organ, (July/August'89).

In this view, the theatre's general similarity to the Palace Theatre in Chicago (another Orpheum. venue) is quite apparent, despite many differences in ornamentation. Few theatre photographs from this era do justice to the house's own lighting: here is an exception, with Rapp & Rapp's characteristic cove-lit proscenium especially well captured.