Friday, Feb. 20 – Saturday, Feb. 21

Leake Auction Company is a household name, at least in the homes of avid car collectors and fans, and has been collecting cars since before the craze. A one-day auction in 1964 put the pedal to the metal for the Leake family’s business, and now Leake Auction Company conducts multiple car auctions per year. A 1973 Ford Bronco, a 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 396, a 1939 Ford Coupe, a 1977 Ashton Martin V8 Coupe, a 1989 Porsche Speedster…do I have your engines revving yet? These classic cars and more will cruise into the Oklahoma City Fairgrounds on Friday, Feb. 20, and Saturday, Feb. 21, for the Leake Classic Car Show & Auction. Enjoy the 500 collector cars, trucks and motorcycles that will park themselves at the Cox Pavilion for your viewing pleasure. Auctions will begin at 12 p.m. on Friday and 10 p.m. on Saturday. For more information, visit www.leakecar.com.

Feb. 19-22 – 

Get lost in the casting of a play that weaves between script reading and reality, playing the part and succumbing to it. During auditions of this play within a play, Thomas, the playwright and director of an adaptation of Venus in Fur, meets a woman completely wrong for the female lead role but who commands Thomas’ interest with seduction and talent. Her name is Vanda, also the name of the role Thomas is trying to fill, and she’s a desperate actress who’ll do about anything to get the part. The New York Times called Venus in Fur “90 minutes of good, kinky fun.” Now, Theatre Pops will debut the outstanding Broadway spectacle at Tulsa’s IDL Ballroom, 230 E. 1^st St. See Rick Harrelson as Thomas Novachek and Heather Sams as Vanda Jordan, Feb. 19-22. General Admission tickets are $20, and student and senior tickets are $15. For more information, visit www.theatrepops.org.

Saturday, Feb. 21 – 

“[After drunkenly getting his ear pierced] I go ‘it wasn’t my fault, it was Captain Morgan!’ and [my wife] goes ‘Oh, like when Jose Cuervo made you ride the floor buffer?’ and I said, ‘Exactly!’” This comedian/actor has induced audience laughter through standup, in television and on the big screen for years. Early in his career, Bill Engvall moved to L.A., where he’d work with Rosie O’Donnell and appear on The Tonight Show and The Late Show with David Letterman. His first solo album, Here’s Your Sign, was released in May of 1996 and stayed in the #1 slot on Billboard’s Comedy Chart for 15 weeks. His second, Dorkfish, in 1998, was certified gold, selling 500,000 copies, and also clinching a #1 position on Billboard’s Comedy Chart, pulling ahead of Jerry Seinfeld’s album. 15° Off Cool in 2007 and Aged and Confused in 2009 would also find themselves debuting at #1. Along with sidekicks Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy and Ron White, Bill Engvall was a hilarious contributor to the Blue Collar Comedy tour, which sold more than 9 million units. Engvall has hosted a number of TV shows including Country Fried Videos and Mobile Home Disasters, for CMT. For three seasons, he starred in and executive produced his own self-titled TBS series. Bill Engvall has even tested out his comedy in the written form, including a 2007 autobiography: Bill Engvall – Just A Guy. On Saturday, Feb. 21, he will be at 7 Clans First Council Casino, 12875 N. Highway 77, Newkirk, on his Here’s Your Sign tour. Enjoy two opportunities to see him in one night; shows begin at 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.firstcouncilcasinohotel.com.

Friday, Feb. 20 –  

To help celebrate 50 years, The National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum will host a dinner and concert on Friday, Feb. 20 that pays tribute to five triptych paintings dedicated to the museum in the mid-1990s. This event, following the culmination of the five years it took artist Wilson Hurley to complete his triptychs, an exhibit titled Windows to the West, with the two years it took Edward Knight, an Oklahoma composer, to finish what he calls a “21st century soundscape that adds musical dimension to the mute majesty of Hurley’s 20th century renditions of timeless landscapes, is an “innovative, creative collaboration,” says Museum President Steven M. Karr. Explore Hurley’s visions of the West alongside music specifically written to amplify the viewer’s experience. The Oklahoma City University Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Benjamin Nilles, will give a world-premiere performance of the 30-minute orchestral suite by Knight. A 6 p.m. reception will be followed by the 8 p.m. dinner and concert in the museum’s Sam Noble Special Events Center – the banquet hall Hurley custom designed to house his landscapes. For more information, visit www.nationalcowboymuseum.org.

Thru May 10 – 

These leading ladies and woeful women paint contrasting pictures depicting women and the settlement of the American West. Within Madonnas of the Prairie, audiences can examine the juxtaposition of artwork that portrays women as leaders with those of women in the role of the observer or victim. Including over 100 works of art from the mid-19th century up to the present, this exhibit pulls from the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum and public and private collections to give audiences a full range of artists and genres. Madonnas of the Prairie opened on Feb. 13 and will continue through May 10 at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., Oklahoma City. Enjoy related happenings throughout the exhibit’s stent: A hat-making workshop on Feb. 21; brown bag lunch-and-learn sessions, guest speakers, demonstrating artists and a Madonna & Me Tea on Mar. 14; a symposium, “Madonnas of the Pairie: Women’s Presence and Imagery of the American West,” on March 24 that will include nationally recognized speakers Mary Jo Watson, professor of American Indian Art at the University of Oklahoma, Glenda Riley, Alexander M. Bracken professor emeritus of history at Ball State University and artist Donna Howell-Sickles; and Dorothy Wickenden, author Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West, will give a talk and book signing on May 2. For more information, visit www.nationalcowboymuseum.org.

Feb. 21-June 1 – 

73 of the most well known artists from the late nineteenth century to the present will have their work on display at Crystal Bridges, opening Saturday, Feb. 21 and running through June 1. The artwork of van Gogh, Picasso, O’Keefe, Dali, Kahlo, Warhol and Rothko will cover the walls alongside other influential artists, allowing audiences to explore the different genres of art that painted the late 1800s, through the 1900s and up to now. Revisit Modernism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Cubism, Surrealism and Minimalism in their best forms as you tour this new exhibit with works selected from the collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, out of Buffalo, N.Y. As this exhibit arrives at Crystal Bridges, it will be the first time many of these masterpieces have seen the road in decades. For a little over four months, crowds will be offered a unique, rare experience to see some of the most famous art the world has ever seen, within arms reach. Don’t miss this opportunity to enjoy selected works from “one of the finest collections of twentieth-century art in the country.” Admission is $10 for adults and free for youths ages 18 and under as well as museum members. For more information, visit http://www.crystalbridges.com.

Tuesday, Feb. 24 – 

Travel to Neverland with this grown-up rendition of the famed classic Peter Pan. Coined “the most exhilarating Broadway storytelling in decades,” by the New York Times, this small cast of 12 puts on one big, musical show with over 100 characters. Peter and the Starcatcher takes audiences on an imaginative and inventive flight that answers the age-old question of how Peter Pan became The Boy Who Never Grew Up. Set in a time before Wendy and Ben and the ticking croc, we meet a young, nameless orphan who has not yet learned to fly, along with the man before the hook, Black Stache. And lets not forget his sidekick, Smee. Experience this classic tale on a new adventure, and see Peter Pan earn his name. Peter and the Starcatcher has won five Tony Awards and continues to get rave reviews: The New Yorker called it “astonishing,” New York Magazine deemed it “miraculous,” and Entertainment Weekly said it’s “an absurdly funny fantastical journey.” Don’t miss this magical, innovative storytelling on Tuesday, Feb. 24 at Broken Arrow Performing Arts Center, 701 S. Main St. The adventure will begin at 7:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.thepacba.com.