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On October 26th, 2025, the actress Sarah Jessica Parker joined Rachel Syme, a staff writer for the New Yorker, onstage for a discussion during the 26th yearly New Yorker Festival, a weekend filled with discussions, screenings, performances, and more. The Festival, the magazine’s hallmark event, was conducted in New York City and assembled prominent figures from the realms of literature, film, comedy, television, politics, and medicine.
Sarah Jessica Parker is a performer, a producer, and a businesswoman, who has been awarded six Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Emmy Awards. Parker presently stars in the show “And Just Like That . . .,” a continuation of the program “Sex and the City,” where she not only starred but also acted as an executive producer. She has appeared in the movies “Footloose,” “L.A. Story,” “Honeymoon in Vegas,” “Ed Wood,” “Miami Rhapsody,” “The Family Stone,” and “State and Main,” amongst others. On the stage, Parker recently acted alongside her spouse, Matthew Broderick, in a revival of Neil Simon’s comedy “Plaza Suite,” for which she garnered a nomination for Best Actress at the 2024 Olivier Awards. She is a co-creator of the award-winning company Pretty Matches Productions.
Rachel Syme, a staff writer at The New Yorker, has written about Hollywood, style, television, books, theatre, music, urban life, and various cultural subjects since 2012. Her cultural critiques and reported pieces, which center principally on the lives of women, artistic creation, history, and notoriety, have also been featured in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, New York, Vogue, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair, among other publications. She is the author of “Syme’s Letter Writer,” which launched in January of this year, and is currently working on a nonfiction compilation for Knopf.
Sourse: newyorker.com