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 combines venue box-office records and separately labelled partner listings. These counts describe the stored catalogue, not a live check of every event. Use each listing’s source timestamp and official booking link to confirm dates, prices and availability.
Directory venues720
Direct box-office sources131
Read in last 48h40 of 131
Read in last 7 days131 of 131
Older than 7 days0
Sources reporting failures0
Upcoming performances53,831
Productions9,074
Last read7 Nov 2026, 03:15 UK
The harvester runs rolling batches twice each day. A batch covers part of the 131 direct box-office sources. Partner imports follow their own schedules, so the source bands above — and the source timestamp printed on each schedule — are the truthful freshness measure.
How complete each field is
Across upcoming performancesEnd time
31% 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
5% 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
49% have venue artwork. The rest get a plain typographic plate rather than a stock photograph.
Excluded from discovery
7,168 upcoming rows are ancillary products or carry an explicit cancellation marker. Examples include insurance, bar bookings, parking and vouchers. They remain in the source records and are excluded from current discovery lists.
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, keeping the match evidence. The current Places theme has component source licences and notices; every enriched page names the source.
Food nearby · 132 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.
Legal terms, attribution and transformation notes are collected on Method & licences.
What we don't do
- Not every UK venue. The directory contains 720 venues; 131 direct box-office sources are enabled. Other venues may have partner listings or directory information only. Most cinema chains, ATG houses and TicketSource users are not here yet.
- Direct venue links and partner tickets. Venue and performance pages name the booking venue or seller. We may earn commission from partner booking links. The separate partner ticket catalogue uses disclosed Awin affiliate links. Commission never determines the factual programme order.
- No live seat availability. A listing records an event or performance supplied by its source. It does not establish that seats remain or that a separate add-on includes admission. Check the named booking source for current ticket conditions.
- 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.
Latest batch 7 Nov 2026, 03:20 UK · 40 venues read, 251 performance rows written, 0 errors · status ok. Rolling batches are scheduled twice daily; this timestamp does not imply that every venue was revisited in that batch.