Sex and the City premiered on HBO 20 years ago June 6, 1998, going on to run for six seasons and two feature films. Based on Candace Bushnell's book, the series starred Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis, and Kim Cattrall. And though Parker and Nixon started off on the stage, both Davis and Cattrall have theatre backgrounds, as well. (Did you know Cattrall's Broadway debut came opposite Ian McKellen?)
In honor of the quintessentially New York City show's anniversary, we look back at some of the stage highlights from its quartet of leading ladies.
Flip through photos of their stage highlights below:
Sarah Jessica Parker as Annie
Sarah Jessica Parker, Alice Ghostley and Lynn Kearney in Annie
Ellen Parker, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Joan Allen
Gerry Goodstein
Sarah Jessica Parker in Once Upon a Mattress
Photo by Carol Rosegg
Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker
Franklin Cover, Kim Cattrall, Frank Maraden, Ian McKellen, and Jonathan Moore
Ian McKellen and Kim Cattrall
Paul Gross and Kim Cattrall
Cylla von Tiedemann
Kim Cattrall
Paul Gross and Kim Cattrall in Private Lives
Cylla von Tiedmann
Douglas Henshall and Kim Cattrall in The Cryptogram
Photo by Tristram Kenton
Elizabeth Ashley, Cybill Shepherd, Kristin Davis, and Donna Hanover in The Best Man
Kristin Davis in The Best Man
Corey Brill, Kristin Davis, Elizabeth Ashley, Cybill Shepherd, Amy Tribbey and Donna Hanover
William Hurt and Cynthia Nixon in Broadway's Hurlyburly, 1984
Martha Swope
Ron Silver, William Hurt, Harvey Keitel, Sigourney Weaver, Jerry Stiller, Cynthia Nixon and Judith Ivey in Broadway's Hurlyburly, 1984
Joan Allen, Joanne Camp, Anne Lange and Cynthia Nixon in Broadway's The Heidi Chronicles, 1989
Roger Rees and Cynthia Nixon in Broadway's Indiscretions, 1995
Jude Law and Cynthia Nixon in Broadway's Indiscretions, 1995
Cynthia Nixon and John Slattery in Rabbit Hole
Joan Marcus
Tyne Daly and Cynthia Nixon in Broadway's The Rabbit Hole, 2006
Cynthia Nixon in Wit on Broadway, 2012
Cynthia Nixon
Joan Marcus
Ewan McGregor, Cynthia Nixon, Josh Hamilton, and Maggie Gyllenhaal in The Real Thing
Cynthia Nixon and Ewan McGregor
Cynthia Nixon as Birdie
Cynthia Nixon as Regina
