Anders Wright

You will be found. That’s a song from the incredibly moving Broadway hit, Dear Evan Hansen, and the message that it’s star, Michael Park, thinks is it’s most important. The show is about trying to fit in and wanting to feel like you’re a part of the world around you. “If you’re feeling lost, you’re not alone in this feeling,” he said. Park, who won two Emmy Awards for his work on As the World Turns, stars as grieving father Larry Murphy considers himself to be “fortunate” to be in the show.

One of the most difficult things about a period piece is ensuring that you maintain accuracy with the time period — there are experts in audiences all over ready to pounce on anything that doesn’t appear to be authentic. For actress Octavia Spencer, it’s a matter of focus and concentration. She should know — she won an Oscar for her role in The Help, which was set in the 1960s. She revisited the 1960s again for Hidden Figures, in which she portrays a NASA pioneer who helped with the space program.

The media coverage of the Deepwater Horizon tragedy focused primarily on the environmental and economic impact it had on the surrounding area. With good reason, of course. The offshore oil rig, which suffered a horrific explosion in April 2010, left a well gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. It wasn’t capped for three months, resulting in the worst oil spill in U.S. waters, and what has been called the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history.