Theatre Royal Bath opened in 1805 with instructions to arriving guests that their coachmen set down horses with heads facing Westgate Street and collect them facing Queen Square. The city was that precise about its carriages. It has been that precise about theatre ever since.

The oldest working theatre outside London to hold a royal charter, it seats around 900 people beneath red velvet and ornate gold. Anna Pavlova danced here. Joseph Grimaldi, the father of modern clowning, performed in 1815. A fire gutted the interior in 1862, leaving only the exterior walls, but Bath rebuilt it without hesitation.

The original facade survives in Beauford Square, where Bridgerton's film crew once scattered blossom trees across a lawn to turn it into Regency London. The connection to Beau Nash, whose house adjoined the theatre, runs through several VoiceMap tours, tracing Bath's golden age of gambling, society and spectacle.