Autobahn is a cycle of five short plays by Neil
LaBute—the world’s leading misanthrope—all of which
happen in cars. In one, a jackass husband begrudgingly apologizes to
his silent, weeping wife: “I was wrong. Is that what you want to hear?
Is it? ‘Kay. It was bad of me to call you a cunt, whether we
were in the Albertsons or not.” Re-bar is an appropriately moody place
to watch a couple returning a foster child, a date turning sour, and
other stripped-down vignettes on human awfulness.
(Re-bar, 1114 Howell St, 233-9873. 7:30 pm, $15, 21+.)

Brend an Kiley has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua....