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Park Slope stroller-pusher Peter Sarsgaard's first major film role was in Dead Man Walking, but he really caught everyone's eye in 1999 with Boys Don't Cry—ever since he's been reason enough to see pretty much anything from Garden State to Jarhead. Last season he made his Broadway debut in the critically-acclaimed production of The Seagull, which transferred from London. In it, he played the self-absorbed novelist Trigorin, who effortlessly seduces the wide-eyed Nina, portrayed by the arresting Carrie Mulligan.

Park Slopers Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard, dubbed New York’s hippest stay-at-home parents by the Times, have joined the cast of Classic Stage Company's Uncle Vanya, to be directed by Austin Pendleton for a January opening. It's the second Chekhov play in a row for Sarsgaard, who's currently on Broadway in an excellent production of The Seagull, and the first time the couple have worked together, aside from a short film. In other stage news, Liza Minelli canceled last night's performance of her new one-woman Broadway show because she was "suffering from dehydration." Neil LaBute's reasons to be pretty will come to Broadway after all, but it's unclear whether Alison Pill will reprise her much buzzed-about role. And one performance of Will Ferrell's hotly anticipated Broadway show, You're Welcome America. A Final Night With George W Bush, will be simulcast on HBO.