Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Two Roads Theater


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The result was   keep. Courcelles 23:42, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

The Two Roads Theater

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Non-notable community theater. The Studio City newspaper's claims of notability notwithstanding, that newspaper is not even a third tier newspaper in the Los Angeles area. The Mark of the Beast (talk) 19:57, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Thryduulf (talk) 21:44, 17 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:14, 23 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep Apparently, the theater does have some notability based on information found here. It hosted an improv group led by M.D Sweeney, then called ACME Comedy Theater group from 1989-1995 before they moved.  The article also states that "early recruit Adam Carolla" helped relocate the venue from the Two Roads Theater, meaning he must have been performing there with the group at the time.  The Theater is also historically noted in this listing of groups (e.g. ACME Theater) for comedic training (for the lack of a better term).  Finally, it seems like some of the early alumni   I don't like how nothing is directly cited in the article, but these sources show the theater has some notability because of its involvement with the improv group as well as being an early starting point for Adam Carolla in his career.  I Jethrobot (talk) 04:30, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Weak keep There are a fair number of hits at Google News, including a number of items from the Los Angeles Times - a major source in anyone's book. Most are about a production rather than about the theater itself, but it appears the theater does get taken note of by the big boys. If someone were to add a few of these references to the article I think it would be a keeper. The link provided by Jethrobot above does not establish notability, it just mentions the theater in passing in an article about something else. But it sounds as if independent reliable sourcing is available. (Didn't anyone check?) --MelanieN (talk) 13:59, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
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