The Black Phone

Fuzzy surf-rock beach vibes, puppet comedy, and a horror flick where Ethan Hawke kidnaps children are all on the menu this holiday weekend.

It’s also yet another proof that Hawke’s mid-career renaissance is one of the best happening among the concurrent ones of actors of a similar age (though folks who have seen First Reformed or Tesla really need no convincing of that), and it’s wonderful to see how much he relishes playing an out-and-out bad dude here.” There’s no better way to celebrate America’s birthday this weekend than with an Australian puppet down in the Seaport. Voiced and operated by Heath McIvor, Randy Feltface makes his way back to Laugh Boston for a three-night run that began on Thursday and rolls through the first stages of fireworks. We got hip to the band a few years back when they opened for Tash Sultana, and in May dropped a delectable swirl of fuzz called “Deepest Darkness.”