Completing the Standard Model and Looking Beyond

I will discuss the theoretical context of the Higgs particle, its anticipated phenomenology, and its current experimental status. I will discuss how a ``minimal'' Higgs particle with mass $\sim$125 GeV, as tentatively suggested by experiment, dovetails with ideas about low-energy supersymmetry, and in particular with the focus point scenario; and what that suggests both for theory and for near-future experiments. If time permits, I'll also briefly discuss what failure to observe a ``minimal'' Higgs particle might imply.