Award-winning drama by Plainview teacher

'POETIC LICENSE'

WHAT A celebrated literature professor struggles with secrets in this award-winning drama by Jack Canfora, Long Island playwright and high school English teacher in Plainview.

WHEN | WHERE Friday night at 8:15, Saturday at 2:15 and 8:15 p.m., Sunday at 3:15 p.m. 59E59 Theaters, 59 E. 59th St.

INFO $35, 212-279-4200, 59e59.org

'I KILLED MY MOTHER'

WHAT Formidable director Karin Coonrod stages András Visky's drama about a girl growing up in Romanian orphanages.

WHEN | WHERE Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30, Sunday at 2:30 and 8 p.m., La MaMa, 74A E. Fourth St.

INFO $20, 212-475-7710, lamama.org

'THE BROKEN HEART'

WHAT Theatre for a New Audience rediscovers this 1629 court tragic-comedy by John Ford, best known for " 'Tis Pity She's a Whore."

WHEN | WHERE Friday and Saturday nights at 8, Sunday at 3 and 7 p.m., The Duke, 229 W. 42nd St.

INFO $75, 646-223-3010, tfana.org

FILM: Oscar-nominated shorts

WHAT This program of the year's live-action nominees packs five films into 110 minutes. The entries range from the half-hour Irish drama "The Shore," starring Ciaran Hinds as an exile returning to Belfast, to the 11-minute comedy "Time Freak," about a brilliant but shortsighted inventor.

WHEN | WHERE Opens Friday at IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave.

INFO $13, 212-924-7771, ifccenter.com

-- Rafer Guzmán

ART: Renoir at Frick Collection

WHAT "Renoir, Impressionism and Full-Length Painting," a new exhibit at the Frick, presents nine large-scale paintings by the Impressionist master, with major works on loan from the National Gallery, London, and Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

WHEN | WHERE Through May 13 at the Frick Collection, 1 E. 70th St.

INFO $18 (timed tickets required for Renoir show), or pay what you wish on Sundays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. 212-288-0700, frick.org

MUSIC: Rapper Wale

WHAT Rapping all the way from the capital (that's Washington, D.C., not Albany). And for those not in the know, he pronounces it "wah-lay." With the multitalented Miguel.

WHEN | WHERE Friday night at 7, Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Place

INFO $45, 800-745-3000, livenation.com

-- Kevin Amorim

KIDS: Sleepover

WHAT Fans 6 and older can meet costumed Jedi warriors and Stormtroopers, play intergalactic games and see the new "Phantom Menace" in 3-D at the "Star Wars Extreme Sleepover" at Ripley's Believe It or Not! Times Square. One adult required for every four kids attending.

WHEN | WHERE Begins Friday night at 7 and ends Saturday at 8 a.m., 234 W. 42nd St.

INFO $145 a person, 212-398-3133, ripleysnewyork.com

NIGHTLIFE: Nouveau York

WHAT Your hosts Neil Aline and Jerome Viger-Kohler keep this dance party moving. Expect a long night of house and disco.

WHEN | WHERE Sunday at 9 p.m., Le Bain at the Standard Hotel, 444 W. 13th St.

INFO Free, 212-645-4646