I often find that I have to repeatedly type out the names of theatres and venues here in the UK. A process that’s easy if a venue has a one word name. But some venues like Bristol Hippodrome or Yvonne Arnaud Theatre or Theatre Royal Bath are fractionally more laborious. Particularly if a venue changes its name like the Royal Opera and Ballet Covent Garden, which used to be the Royal Opera House. Remembering the new name can trip me up.
So I have made a TextExpander Group of theatre, opera house, and venue names in the United Kingdom. The list is could be useful for those touring venues around the UK. I started building this list when I was out on tour regularly. It also helps to identify the nine million Theatre Royals, Lyric and Playhouse Theatres.
For the snippet abbreviation, I generally used the venue’s preferred initials unless that creates ambiguity. So Royal Court is RCT and Royal National Theatre is NT, for example.
The lyric and new snippets feature a way to help you identify which one of those theatre’s you are talking about. Simply type th.lyric and get a list of all the lyric theatres, or th.new to get a list of all the ‘New’ theatres.
th.new.Generally, I haven’t included venues that are one word followed by Theatre because I find that I mostly type them out anyway. Hopefully, it’s predictable that the prefix of th. stands for ’theatre’, but TextExpander lets you override that if you like.
Download or access the group at: https://app.textexpander.com/public/2980356a124ee82e9a60abfaf77b2282
The group is shared using Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International.
Code By Anthony 