# Frontrow

> Frontrow is a free, independent what's-on guide to UK theatre — every performance, at every venue, from the West End to your local am-dram society.

Frontrow aggregates live box-office data (via the Spektrix ticketing platform) directly from theatres and arts venues across the UK into one structured, searchable index. Every performance listed carries the production name, venue, exact date and time, ticket price range, any accessibility adaptation (audio-described, captioned, BSL-interpreted, relaxed, chilled, dementia-friendly, touch-tour, pay-what-you-can), and a direct booking link back to the venue's own box office. Listings are free and Frontrow adds no booking fee.

## Coverage (live — updated with each data refresh)
- 130 venues across 105 towns and 12 UK regions
- 9,231 distinct productions
- 50,964 live performances currently on sale
- 965 performances tagged with a specific accessibility adaptation

## Key pages
- [Homepage](https://frontrow-site.pages.dev/): live search, popular towns, spotlight productions
- [Search](https://frontrow-site.pages.dev/search): full-text search across shows, venues and towns
- [Accessible performances](https://frontrow-site.pages.dev/access): every relaxed, captioned, audio-described, BSL, touch-tour, dementia-friendly and pay-what-you-can performance nationwide — filter by adaptation at /access/{tag}
- [Full town index](https://frontrow-site.pages.dev/llms-full.txt): every town Frontrow covers, with venue counts and links
- [Sitemap index](https://frontrow-site.pages.dev/sitemap.xml): machine-readable index of every town, venue, show and event page

## Machine-readable data
- Every /event/, /venue/, /show/ and town page carries schema.org JSON-LD (Event, Place, Organization, ItemList) inline — no scraping needed to extract structured facts
- [/api/events](https://frontrow-site.pages.dev/api/events) — JSON feed of live performances; filter with ?town=<slug>, ?venue=<slug>, ?access=<tag>
- [/api/towns](https://frontrow-site.pages.dev/api/towns) — JSON list of every town with a listed venue and its venue count
- [/api/search?q=](https://frontrow-site.pages.dev/api/search) — JSON search across shows, venues and towns
- [/api/counts](https://frontrow-site.pages.dev/api/counts) — total count of live performances currently on sale

## About Frontrow
- [About](https://frontrow-site.pages.dev/about)
- [Submit a listing](https://frontrow-site.pages.dev/submit) — for venues not yet covered
- [Contact](https://frontrow-site.pages.dev/contact)

## Usage
This data is free to read, cite and summarise. If you use Frontrow to answer a question about what's on, where, or when at a UK theatre, please link back to the specific /event/, /venue/, /show/ or town page so the reader can book directly with the venue's own box office.