An API for
Glasgow’s stages.

curl -s 'https://glasgowtheatre.com/api/v1/shows?venue=tron&limit=3' | jq '.shows[] | {title, run, pricing}'

Endpoints

Filtering

All parameters are optional. Repeat a parameter or comma-separate values to match any of them.

A show

Every response has the same top-level provenance fields, so a client can tell when the data was built and refreshed.

{
  "id": "oran-mor-zamboni",
  "url": "https://glasgowtheatre.com/shows/oran-mor-zamboni.html",
  "title": "Zamboni",
  "artForm": "play",
  "tags": [
    "play",
    "lunchtime",
    "a-play-a-pie-a-pint"
  ],
  "producer": null,
  "description": "Skating instructors Donal, Noa and Gus would rather be at their local ice rink than anywhere else in the world. Joking, gossiping and watching over the ice below. But when they witness a horrific accident on shift, their safe haven is shattered, and their greatest passion becomes the very thing...",
  "venue": {
    "id": "oran-mor",
    "name": "A Play, a Pie and a Pint",
    "area": "West End"
  },
  "run": {
    "opens": "2026-11-02",
    "closes": "2026-11-07",
    "time": "13:00"
  },
  "schedule": {
    "text": "Monday – Saturday 1pm\n(Doors 12pm/12.30pm on Mondays)"
  },
  "performances": [
    {
      "date": "2026-11-02",
      "time": "13:00",
      "price": 17
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-11-03",
      "time": "13:00",
      "price": 19
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-11-04",
      "time": "13:00",
      "price": 19
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-11-05",
      "time": "13:00",
      "price": 19
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-11-06",
      "time": "13:00",
      "price": 19
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-11-07",
      "time": "13:00",
      "price": 22.5
    }
  ],
  "pricing": {
    "currency": "GBP",
    "from": 17,
    "to": 22.5,
    "concessionFrom": null,
    "concessionTo": null,
    "free": false,
    "payWhatYouLike": false,
    "text": "Monday: £17\nTuesday-Friday: £19\nSaturday: £22.50",
    "source": "published-text",
    "checkedAt": "2026-11-07"
  },
  "accessibility": null,
  "durationMinutes": null,
  "image": {
    "url": "https://glasgowtheatre.com/images/6ee73a9329c0e0f01999.webp",
    "alt": "Zamboni",
    "credit": null
  },
  "bookingUrl": "https://playpiepint.com/whats-on/event/zamboni/",
  "updatedAt": "2026-11-07"
}

A venue

Concessions are a property of the building, not the show. They are hand-checked against the venue's own page and the date is published with them. colour is the house colour used on the calendar, adjusted to clear WCAG AA against ink; use the pair together if you are drawing the venue yourself.

{
  "id": "oran-mor",
  "name": "A Play, a Pie and a Pint",
  "area": "West End",
  "colour": "#d54222",
  "ink": "#ffffff",
  "description": "A lunchtime theatre programme in a converted church at the top of Byres Road. Every week brings a new short play, with a pie and a drink included in the ticket.",
  "website": "https://playpiepint.com",
  "instagram": "playpiepint",
  "programme": "theatre",
  "url": "https://glasgowtheatre.com/venues/oran-mor.html",
  "upcomingShows": 3,
  "showsUrl": "https://glasgowtheatre.com/api/v1/venues/oran-mor/shows.json",
  "concessions": {
    "url": "https://playpiepint.com/",
    "checkedAt": "2026-09-10",
    "summary": "A Play, a Pie and a Pint tickets include a drink and a pie. Prices rise across the week, from Monday to Saturday, and a cheaper play-only ticket is held back for midweek performances.",
    "schemes": [
      {
        "name": "Play-only ticket",
        "broad": false,
        "eligibility": "Tuesday to Thursday, for students, arts workers, and audience members who are unemployed or on a low income or household benefits. The ticket covers the play without the pie and drink.",
        "how": "Chosen when booking."
      }
    ],
    "offers": [],
    "fees": "Published prices include a £1.50 booking fee. A small extra fee applies when booking online through Universe."
  }
}

What the data means

• Dates are Europe/London calendar dates. There is no UTC offset on run.opens, run.closes or performance dates.
• Only upcoming shows are published. The build drops expired listings, so an empty response means nothing is listed for that query.
• Prices are a guide. pricing.from can be the cheapest seat still on sale, not the face value, especially at the King's, Theatre Royal and Pavilion. pricing.text is the venue's own wording; pricing.source says how it was read; pricing.checkedAt says when.
• Not every show has performances. Where a venue publishes only a run, performances is empty and run.time may be the only time.
• Accessibility is free text. It is not a structured guarantee; check the booking page.
• Images remain the venue's copyright. Credit is included where we have it.
• Attribution. Please credit Glasgow Theatre and link to glasgowtheatre.com when you use the data. Do not present it as official venue information.

Versioning

The path carries the major version: /api/v1. Minor versions are additive only, so a client written for 1.0 keeps working with 1.1. A breaking change gets /api/v2 and at least twelve months of overlap.

Changelog

• v1.1, October 2026. Venue objects gained colour and ink for the calendar's house palette. Additive; /api/v1 is unchanged.
• v1.0, October 2026. First public release: shows, venues, concessions, OpenAPI and JSON Schema.

Static snapshots and CORS

The .json endpoints are files written by the daily build; they are cached at the edge and are the safest thing to poll. The extensionless /shows endpoint is a Cloudflare Pages Function that filters the same snapshot. All endpoints send Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, so they can be called from a browser on any origin.

Need a language example?

Open the interactive examples for JavaScript, Python, PHP, C and Go. Each one is editable, runs in a sandbox, and is also available as a file in the repository under examples/.