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What were the large working-class audiences at 17th-century theaters called?

audience

[aw-dee-uhns] / ˈɔ di əns /




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“Sometimes your story has got to stop and you let the audience just look at your people,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

She’s been told that movies starring women and directed by women don’t make as much money as those made by men, that their audience is limited.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

“We were a little bit insulated at the time from the controversy back in the states,” one of the bandmates told the audience, setting up “Not Ready to Make Nice.”

From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2026

Waititi reposted a graphic claiming that “Klara and the Sun” was “rebounding” with a 78% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, a 53-point gap from the film’s 25% critics score.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

The audience applauded Akira as she left the stage, and this time it sounded less like the roar of a distant fire and more like the steady, reassuring thunder of horses’ hooves.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Only true golf sickos could simultaneously keep up with the PGA Tour and LIV, and though LIV did cultivate audiences in welcoming places like Australia, it never took off with the essential U.S. audience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Over the next dozen years, audiences flocked to experience the “Ring” in Vienna, Berlin, London and New York, where it arrived at the Metropolitan Opera in 1889.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

While Tiwari said it was intended to make the film more accessible to international audiences, Adlakha likened the result to "exaggerated mouth movements superimposed on still images for comedy sketches".

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

With its English version, Hollywood special effects and epic battle scenes, "Ramayana" appears aimed at international audiences as much as the movie-mad country of 1.4 billion people.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

Undeniably, though, one major draw for black audiences was simply seeing fellow African Americans on stage.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander


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