The Kessler Theater opened as an Oak Cliff movie house in the early days of World War II. Once owned by Gene Autry the Singing Cowboy, it was crushed by a tornado in 1957, rebuilt as a revival ...

If you interpret "best live music venue" as "best place to listen to live music," then the only winner in town has to be the Kessler Theater ... what anywhere else in Dallas has to offer.

There are louder places in Dallas, and places with bigger names and bigger lights. But no place takes concerts as seriously as The Kessler ... legacy of the old theater. It's been open as a ...