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Thursday, February 26, 2015

Jason Biggs on Broadway: 'I'm more complicated than I ever realised'

The actor once struggled to move on from American Pie-type roles, but now he is digging deeper as he costars in the Broadway revival of The Heidi Chronicles On a face-freezing morning in New York, the actor Jason Biggs surveys a midtown cafe perched on a desolate strip of 11th Avenue. “A- coffee,” he calculates. “C+ patrons. D location. I’m being generous with the D.” Biggs isn’t usually so judgmental about where he buys his Greek yogurt and coffee with extra shots of espresso. (“I don’t fuck around,” he said, pointing to his cup.) But he’s assessing the place through the eyes of Scoop Rosenbaum, the character he plays in The Heidi Chronicles, the Broadway revival of the 1988 Wendy Wasserstein drama. A play about a woman’s search for happiness and fulfillment, it won both a Tony and a Pulitzer. Continue reading...


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