Start time
100% carry a published start time — it is how the box office sells the seat. The remainder show "time TBC" rather than a guess.
Coverage and freshness.
Frontrow is built from venue box offices, so it is exact about the venues it reads and silent about the ones it doesn't. This page is generated from the same catalogue the listings use, and changes when the data changes.
Venue sources130
Read in last 48h129 of 130
Upcoming performances41,181
Productions9,392
Last read17 Aug 2026, 15:00 UK
How complete each field is
Across upcoming performancesEnd time
40% carry a venue-published running time, which is what lets us estimate curtain-down for the last train. The rest leave duration blank at source and we do not guess it.
Price
1% expose a price range. Where the venue publishes none we say "see venue" rather than inventing a figure.
Access format
3% carry at least one venue-supplied access tag. A missing tag means the venue did not tag that performance, not that the venue is inaccessible.
Image
36% have venue artwork. The rest get a plain typographic plate rather than a stock photograph.
Filtered out
10,477 upcoming rows are box-office admin products — booking insurance, interval drinks, parking, gift vouchers, room hire. They stay in the source but never appear as listings.
Where the extra detail comes from
Transport · 119 venues
Nearest rail, metro, tram, ferry and bus access points from Department for Transport NaPTAN under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Straight-line distances — not journey times, and not a service-status claim.
Addresses · 62 venues
Postal addresses matched conservatively against Overture Maps Places (CDLA Permissive 2.0), keeping the match evidence. Every enriched page names the source.
Food nearby · 130 venues
Nearest FSA Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen inspection records within a mile, from FSA open data. Dated inspection results with no opening-hours or recommendation claim.
What we don't do
- Not every UK venue. Coverage is the 130 venues whose box offices publish open listings. Most cinema chains, ATG houses and TicketSource users are not here yet.
- No ticket sales and no commission. Every booking link points at the venue's own site. We take nothing from it, so nothing is ranked by payment.
- No live seat availability. A listing means the venue was selling that performance when we last read it, not that seats remain.
- No invented content. Where a venue publishes no synopsis, price or running time, the page says so instead of filling the gap.
- No paid placement. Ordering is by date and, on index pages, by how much is on sale.
Last refresh 17 Aug 2026, 15:01 UK · 2 venues read, 513 performance rows written, 0 errors · status ok. Venue sources are revisited on a rolling schedule every 15 minutes.