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On the twenty-sixth of October, 2025, the actress Sarah Jessica Parker graced the stage alongside New Yorker staff scribe Rachel Syme for a dialogue at the 26th yearly New Yorker Festival, a weekend filled with discussions, screenings, shows, and much more. The Festival, the magazine’s hallmark occasion, took place in New York City and assembled leading individuals in the realms of literature, movies, humor, television, governance, and healthcare.
Sarah Jessica Parker is a performer, a creator, and a business owner, having been honored with six Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Emmy Awards. Parker currently headlines the show “And Just Like That . . .,” a follow-up to the series “Sex and the City,” where she both acted and served as a producer. She has acted in the pictures “Footloose,” “L.A. Story,” “Honeymoon in Vegas,” “Ed Wood,” “Miami Rhapsody,” “The Family Stone,” and “State and Main,” amongst many others. On the stage, Parker recently acted with her spouse, Matthew Broderick, in a restaging of Neil Simon’s play “Plaza Suite,” which garnered her a nomination for Best Actress at the 2024 Olivier Awards. She is the co-establisher of the prestigious Pretty Matches Productions.
Rachel Syme, a staff writer at The New Yorker, has written about Hollywood, fashion, television, books, theatre, music, urban living, and additional cultural subjects since 2012. Her cultural critiques and in-depth articles, which primarily center on women’s lives, artistic output, background, and renown, have also been featured in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, New York, Vogue, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair, among further publications. She authored “Syme’s Letter Writer,” which was launched in January of the present year, and is currently developing a nonfiction compilation for Knopf.
Sourse: newyorker.com
