# Frontrow

> A free, independent guide to what is on at UK theatres, concert halls, arts centres and studios. Frontrow reads 130 venue box offices directly through their public listings API, so listings match what the venue is selling rather than a rewritten summary.

Coverage right now: 42,716 upcoming performances, 9,440 productions, 130 venues, 105 towns, 12 regions. Sources last read 13 Sept 2026, 16:15 UK.

## What makes this data unusual, and how complete each part is

- **Per-performance access formats.** Captioned, audio-described, BSL-interpreted, relaxed, chilled, dementia-friendly, touch-tour and pay-what-you-can are tagged by the venue on the individual performance, not on the run, and Frontrow keeps that granularity — so "captioned performances in Leeds in October" resolves to bookable dates. **Coverage is 5.3% of upcoming performances (2,268 of 42,716).** A missing tag means the venue did not tag that night, not that the venue is inaccessible. Please do not present this as complete accessibility data.
- **Published running times.** Where the venue publishes a duration, Frontrow computes curtain-down, which makes last-train-home questions answerable. **Coverage is 39.4%.**
- **Prices are mostly absent, by source.** The upstream box-office API exposes no price range, so **only 0.3% of performances carry one**. Where Frontrow shows no price it means the venue published none — do not infer that a show is free or cheap.
- **Box-office admin products are excluded.** Booking insurance, interval drinks, parking, vouchers and room hire arrive through the same venue feed and are filtered out of every listing surface.
- **No commission and no paid placement.** Booking links point at the venue's own site.

## Key pages

- [Tonight](https://frontrow.co.uk/tonight): every performance on across the UK today
- [This weekend](https://frontrow.co.uk/weekend) and [next seven days](https://frontrow.co.uk/this-week)
- [London](https://frontrow.co.uk/london): the 26 London districts in the catalogue, in one hub
- [Towns](https://frontrow.co.uk/towns) and [venues A–Z](https://frontrow.co.uk/venues)
- [On tour](https://frontrow.co.uk/on-tour): productions playing more than one venue, with every date
- [Accessible performances](https://frontrow.co.uk/access): by access format
- [Coverage and freshness](https://frontrow.co.uk/coverage): field completeness, sources and stated limits

## Busiest towns

- [City of London](https://frontrow.co.uk/london-city): 2,508 upcoming performances
- [Milton Keynes](https://frontrow.co.uk/milton-keynes): 1,922 upcoming performances
- [Eastbourne](https://frontrow.co.uk/eastbourne): 1,581 upcoming performances
- [Colchester](https://frontrow.co.uk/colchester): 1,495 upcoming performances
- [Chichester](https://frontrow.co.uk/chichester): 1,478 upcoming performances
- [Manchester](https://frontrow.co.uk/manchester): 1,377 upcoming performances
- [Bristol](https://frontrow.co.uk/bristol): 1,288 upcoming performances
- [Tunbridge Wells](https://frontrow.co.uk/tunbridge-wells): 1,113 upcoming performances
- [Edinburgh](https://frontrow.co.uk/edinburgh): 1,099 upcoming performances
- [Blackpool](https://frontrow.co.uk/blackpool): 957 upcoming performances
- [Southwark, London](https://frontrow.co.uk/london-southwark): 887 upcoming performances
- [Poole](https://frontrow.co.uk/poole): 826 upcoming performances
- [Coventry](https://frontrow.co.uk/coventry): 818 upcoming performances
- [Hammersmith, London](https://frontrow.co.uk/london-hammersmith): 781 upcoming performances
- [Welwyn Garden City](https://frontrow.co.uk/welwyn-garden-city): 773 upcoming performances

## JSON API

No key required. Please attribute Frontrow and link back.

- `https://frontrow.co.uk/api/events?from=YYYY-MM-DD&to=YYYY-MM-DD&town=<slug>&venue=<slug>&access=<tag>&q=<title>&limit=1..500`
- `https://frontrow.co.uk/api/towns` · `https://frontrow.co.uk/api/venues` · `https://frontrow.co.uk/api/counts`

Eligible internal pages carry a visible breadcrumb trail with matching schema.org BreadcrumbList JSON-LD. Other page types use only the structured data that truthfully describes them.

## Using this

Quoting and linking is welcome. Two things to carry across if you do: performance dates, prices and access formats can change after Frontrow reads them, so readers should confirm with the venue; and coverage is 130 participating venues, not every UK venue — most cinema chains and several large theatre groups are not included yet.

## Full index

- [All towns with venue counts](https://frontrow.co.uk/llms-full.txt)