Audience facts for kids

Military audience

An audience is a group of people that see, hear or otherwise experience the same thing. It may be many different kinds of thing, such as a play, a movie, a book, or a broadcast. Audience members participate in different ways in different kinds of art; some live performance events invite the audience to be part of the performance, while others allow only applause and criticism. Mass media seldom provide for audience participation.

An audience at a sporting event are called spectators or a live audience

Images for kids

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  An audience in Tel Aviv, Israel waiting to see the Batsheva Dance Company

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  Audiences at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics in Moscow, Russia.

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  Dancing with Iggy - audience participation at Sziget Festival

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  An audience at the Brooklyn Book Festival in New York City.

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  Some of this audience at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion provided their own seating to hear Beethoven's 9th Symphony at the Grant Park Music Festival

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  Audience at a Frontier Fiesta show, 1950s

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  Audience at a show in Hong Kong.

See also

In Spanish: Espectador para niños