On October 26, 2025, actress Sarah Jessica Parker appeared on stage. New Yorker staff writer Rachel Syme for speaking at the 26th Annual New Yorker Festival, a weekend of conversations, screenings, performances and more. The festival, which became the hallmark of the magazine, was held in New York and brought together leading representatives of literature, cinema, comedy, television, politics and medicine.
Sarah Jessica Parker – actor, producer and businesswoman, winner of six Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Emmy Awards. Parker is currently filming And Just Like That, a sequel to Sex and the City, which she co-starred in and also serves as an executive producer. She starred in the films Footloose, L.A. Story, Honeymoon in Vegas, Ed Wood, Miami Rhapsody, The Family Stone, State and Chief and others. On stage, Parker recently starred opposite her husband Matthew Broderick in the revival of Neil Simon's comedy The Plaza Suite, for which she received a Best Actress nomination at the 2024 Olivier Awards. She is the co-founder of the award-winning Pretty Matches Productions.
Rachel Symestaff writer New Yorkercovering Hollywood, style, television, books, theater, music, city life and other cultural topics since 2012. Her cultural criticism and reporting, which focuses primarily on women's lives, artistic production, history and fame, has also appeared in New York magazine. Times Magazine, GQ, New York, Vogue, Rolling Stone, And Vanity Fairamong other publications. She is the author of “Letter writer Saima”, which was released in January of this year, and is currently working on a non-fiction collection for Knopf.
