Variety.com

Netflix’s “The Crown” is now in a world where Queen Elizabeth II and royals are out of step with the times and increasingly aware of it.

Based on “The Golden Compass,” the new HBO drama stars Lin-Manuel Miranda and Dafne Keen.

“High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” is upfront about delivering its gentle twist on an aggressively inoffensive franchise.

Damon Lindelof’s adaptation tackles the ways individuals are wrecked by history, though it lacks the necessary focus.

The musical by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken gets a starry, but small-scale Off Broadway revival starring Jonathan Groff.

Brian Cox (“Succession”) takes over from Bryan Cranston in Robert Schenkkan’s follow-up play to his Tony-winning “All the Way.”

“Almost Famous” fans get their backstage pass renewed via a stage musical adaptation in San Diego that feels familiar and refreshing.

Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins play an elderly husband and wife, one of whom might be dead.

Kanye West’s unfocused and frustrating “Jesus Is King” contains flashes of inspiration — divine and otherwise — but that’s all.

This box set tackles a classic with less need of a spit-polish and not as many raw demos in the vault. Still necessary? Completely.

The follow-up to his 2018’s album mostly goes to softer places, but he still wants to nurture his bad-boy side, too.

Sheryl Crow is vowing this is her final full-length album. If so, it’s a heck of a retirement banquet.