FESTIVAL
New productions hit the stage in GayFest, the month-long celebration of plays and musicals featuring gay-friendly material and LGBT authors. This year, proceeds will fund scholarship for Harvey Milk High School students. Through June 2. gayfestnyc.com
MOVIES
Everyone’s favorite ogre is back in “Shrek the Third,” the animated film starring some of the most famous voices in Hollywood, including Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake. Opens May 18. shrek.com
MULTIMEDIA
The biannual Spring Fever Festival brings video, performance and installations from self-producing artists to the Lower East Side’s Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Education Center through June 2. breedingground.com/festival
ART
Everyday objects get the full artistic treatment in “Hidden in Plain Sight: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection” at the Met, with work by Gabriel Orozco, Jean-Marc Bustamante and Damián Ortega, among others. Through Sept. 3. metmuseum.org
THEATER
The Irish Repertory Theater presents the bone-chilling “Gaslight,” a psychological thriller of abuse and manipulation that originally starred the king of creepy, Vincent Price. Through July 8. irishrep.org
