The Wallis: A Guide to Beverly Hills' Performing Arts Center, and What's On This Season

A 1930s post office with WPA frescoes, a 500-seat theater, and a 2026–27 season of Fleabag, LA Opera recitals, dance and family days.

On the corner of North Santa Monica Boulevard and Crescent Drive, the city’s 1930s post office has become its main stage. The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, known as The Wallis, opened in 2013. It’s named for philanthropist Wallis Annenberg.

A post office Will Rogers lobbied for

The Wallis’ history says that when the city couldn’t get enough federal money for a post office, Honorary Mayor Will Rogers wrote to Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, joking that the mail was being handled in a tent. After officials from Washington toured the site, the government set aside $300,000. The Beverly Hills Post Office was built in 1933 on the site of the former Pacific Electric Railway station. It was designed by Ralph C. Flewelling with Allison & Allison in the Italian Renaissance Revival style, opened in 1934, and was dedicated in 1936.

Inside, artist Charles Kassler painted eight lunette fresco murals, funded under the New Deal’s WPA program. They show WPA laborers and artisans at work, along with the Pony Express and airmail. The Wallis says they are among only two remaining WPA frescoes in California’s federal building system.

What’s there now

Architect Zoltan Pali of SPF:architects designed the center. It keeps the restored post office and adds:

the 500-seat Goldsmith Theater
the 150-seat Lovelace Studio Theater
GRoW at The Wallis, an arts-education space
a sculpture garden and promenade terrace

Address: 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90210. Box office: 310.746.4000.

On the calendar: November and December 2026

These dates come from The Wallis’ published schedule as of Nov. 2, 2026.

Date	Show
Nov. 6–22	Radio Galaxy
Nov. 12, 7:30 p.m.	Las Migas
Nov. 14, 7 p.m.	Fleabag
Nov. 15, 2 p.m.	LA Opera: Jamie Barton
Nov. 18, 7:30 p.m.	Naghash Ensemble
Nov. 21, 11 a.m.	Manual Cinema: Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster
Nov. 22, 4 p.m.	Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra: Ruo, Bates, Noone, Schoenberg
Dec. 5	Sandra Bernhard: Caught Off Guard
Dec. 6, 4 p.m.	LA Chamber Orchestra: Vivaldi’s Venice
Dec. 11, 7:30 p.m.	The String Queens
Dec. 12	Jason Robert Brown & Friends
Dec. 17–19	Contra-Tiempo: ¡azúcar!
Dec. 20, 4 p.m.	LA Chamber Orchestra: Bach, Christmas Oratorio

Later in the season

The 2026–27 schedule continues with Rita Rudner on Jan. 8, 2027; Los Angeles Ballet on Feb. 4–6; Hershey Felder: The Piano and Me on March 11–21; An Evening with Isaac Mizrahi on April 17; LA Opera and Beth Morrison Projects’ The Old Man & the Sea on May 20–23; and Alonzo King LINES Ballet on June 3–5. Free Family Fest days are scheduled for Lunar New Year (Jan. 23), Día de los Muertos (March 20) and Pride (June 12).

Check thewallis.org for tickets and any changes.