Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts located on a 2.5-acre site at the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Canon Drive in Beverly Hills on October 30, 2013. The site includes the expanded 1934 Beverly Hills Post Office and a new 500-seat Bram Goldsmith Theater designed by SPF architect Zoltan Pali.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts located on a 2.5-acre site at the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Canon Drive in Beverly Hills on October 30, 2013. The site includes the expanded 1934 Beverly Hills Post Office and a new 500-seat Bram Goldsmith Theater designed by SPF architect Zoltan Pali.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts located on a 2.5-acre site at the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Canon Drive in Beverly Hills on October 30, 2013. The site includes the expanded 1934 Beverly Hills Post Office and a new 500-seat Bram Goldsmith Theater designed by SPF architect Zoltan Pali.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

“Exhaltation, 2013” by Emmanuel Fillion at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts located on a 2.5-acre site at the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Canon Drive in Beverly Hills on October 30, 2013. The site includes the expanded 1934 Beverly Hills Post Office and a new 500-seat Bram Goldsmith Theater designed by SPF architect Zoltan Pali.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Interior of the entrance to the new 500-seat Bram Goldsmith Theater at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts located on a 2.5-acre site at the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Canon Drive in Beverly Hills on October 30, 2013. The site includes the expanded 1934 Beverly Hills Post Office and Theater designed by SPF architect Zoltan Pali.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Interior of the walkway between the new 500-seat Bram Goldsmith Theater and the expanded 1934 Beverly Hills Post Office at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts located on a 2.5-acre site at the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Canon Drive in Beverly Hills on October 30, 2013.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

BEVERLY HILLS, CA OCTOBER 30, 2013 -- Interior of the new 500-seat Bram Goldsmith Theater at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts located on a 2.5-acre site at the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Canon Drive in Beverly Hills on October 30, 2013. The site includes the expanded 1934 Beverly Hills Post Office and Theater designed by SPF architect Zoltan Pali. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts located on a 2.5-acre site at the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Canon Drive in Beverly Hills on October 30, 2013. The site includes the expanded 1934 Beverly Hills Post Office and a new 500-seat Bram Goldsmith Theater designed by SPF architect Zoltan Pali.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Outside the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Architect Zoltan Pali, who designed the new Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, stands inside the old Beverly Hills Post Office that is now part of the center in Beverly Hills.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

People stand next to the Salvatore Ferragamo Pop-Up store in the old Beverly Hills Post Office.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Architect Zoltan Pali, center with arm raised, gives a tour of the Bram Goldsmith Theater at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Visitors make their way through the Jamie Tisch Sculpture Garden at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Cement panels surround a portion of the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)