When Suzie Miller’s play about the career of US Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg opened at STC in November 2022, the season quickly sold out. Heather Mitchell, who played the indomitable, opera-loving Bader Ginsburg, won high praise all round, with Limelight describing her as “magnificent from start to finish”. Mitchell took home a Sydney Theatre Award for her virtuosic performance. If you missed out then, snap up a ticket for the return STC season. The play will then embark on a national tour to Brisbane, Melbourne, Canberra and Parramatta.

Limelight Editor’s Choice

After a wildly popular, sold-out premiere season in 2022, this smash-hit production returns to the stage with the brilliant Heather Mitchell reviving her award-winning “virtuosic performance” (The Conversation) of the woman who changed the face of the American legal system: the indomitable Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The second woman to be appointed to the US Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was both a trailblazer in the American judiciary and a fierce advocate for gender equality and reproductive rights. Now, her life is brought to the stage by the extraordinary pen of Olivier Award-winning Australian playwright Suzie Miller, in a story that chronicles Ginsburg’s wins and dissents, traces her steps forward and the steps back, and brings you right into the room with Ruth at the most pivotal moments of her life.

Director Priscilla Jackman reunites with Mitchell to reconjure RBG in this once-in-a-generation event that is “magnificent from start to finish” (Limelight).