 As part of cast that Clive Barnes called "exemplary", Walter Kerr found Higgins "excellent as a father turned ashen when caught out at a skin flick".Among his Broadway performances are "Romeo and Juliet" as Benvolio with Olivia de Havilland in 1951, Jean Anouilh's "The Lark" in 1955 with Julie Harris and Christopher Plummer, Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh" with James Earl Jones at Circle in the Square Theatre in 1973, and the 1980 production of "Mixed Couples", his final Broadway appearance.In 1963, he starred in "Antony and Cleopatra" opposite Colleen Dewhurst, in Joseph Papp's Shakespeare Festival in Central Park.