Regina Spektor taps into something powerful at Walt Disney Concert Hall

Early in Regina Spektor’s (mostly) solo performance Tuesday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall, a voice called out from the audience, “You’re very talented!”

As heckling goes, it was as polite as it sounds, because this was a passionately rapt crowd, mainly restricting itself to the occasional “I love you” (or even “I love your shoes!”). But the comment was also some spot-on music criticism: Spektor is really, really good.

She arrived onstage in a colorful dress with a tiered skirt and white Mary Janes, taking in the audience that flanked her around the hall.

“This is a nice way of being surrounded. Thank you so much,” she said, before twirling a bit, joking that she was moving around for the crowd while she could before sitting down at the piano. “I don’t know how to rotate. I play most of the time with my eyes closed so you’re not missing anything.”

On a mostly bare stage taken up by a grand piano, Spektor sounded great in the hall as she sang and accompanied herself on the piano for most of the evening, which also included forays into a cappella, electric guitar, drumming on a chair, and — why not? — tap dancing. The show was supporting “Home, Before and After,” her 2022 album; she’d postponed the original tour dates when she got COVID-19.

Opening the show with “Ain’t No Cover,” done with just voice and two fingers tapping on the microphone, Spektor moved to the piano for a run of songs that included favorites such as “Folding Chair” and “Better,” each interspersed with her good-natured comments.

“It’s like a conversation that gets interrupted by songs,” she joked about the night’s program.

She moved over to an electric piano and a wooden chair that she played with a drumstick during “Poor Little Rich Boy” and “Ballad of a Politician,” which led to some brief comments about “insane politicians” and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — she had a shirt for sale at the merch table whose proceeds were going to Ukrainian aid — before launching into a fierce “Apres Moi.”

Then, about midway through the show, Spektor was joined by a tap dancer in white overalls, Caleb Teicher, and they danced together as she sang in a charming routine.

“We’re totally professional,” joked Spektor as they performed “Silly Eye-Color Generalizations” and “Prisoners” with light choreography. “We know what we’re doing.”

Then Teicher — who’s “one of those brilliant types,” she said — moved over to play piano as Spektor sang “It’s You I Like,” a song by beloved children’s TV host Mr. Rogers, which she directed to every part of the hall. Does that sound absolutely lovely? It was.