Auditions for next year’s NOVA Idol conclude this week.

After the judges selected the top five, the capacity crowd in Colgan Theater voted for their favorite.

The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia concludes its first full season of performing arts by producing and presenting three events in March.

Taking Flight Theatre Company will open its 2013 season with D.C. playwright Ken Ludwig’s fast-paced farce “The Fox on the Fairway” the weekends of Feb. 15-17 and Feb. 22-23.

The Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center is on the Alexandria campus of Northern Virginia Community College.

A small collection of actors gathers in the Waddell Conference room at Loudoun campus, bearing scripts and pencils. As they sit, their specific beverage marks their spot — Arizona Green Tea for one, seltzer water for another.

The NoVa Woodbridge Theatre Group has done it again with their spring musical, Reefer Madness: The Musical! This challenging show is a parody of the 1938 anti-marijuana propaganda film.

Dr. Eric Trumbull, the professor of theater at NOVA, directed the show, assisted by Brittany Mignoli, who — like many other cast members — is applying the show toward the requirements of one or more of her classes.

A free performance will be held at Manassas campus as part of the Summer Evenings Under the Stars summer program there. This performance will be on June 25 at 7:30 p.m., at the Mary Louise Jackson Amphitheater.

On May 20, Washington actors Sarah Marshall, Jennifer Mendenhall, Kim Schraf, Craig Wallace, MaryBeth Wise and Deidra Starnes will perform in readings of new plays by favorite Washington playwrights Ari Roth, Norman Allen, Ally Currin, David Emerson Toney, Renee Calarco, Elizabeth Pringle, Pamela Leahigh and Keith Bridges to raise money to send kids to theatre camp.