An audience is:

a person or group of (usually) people viewing a show (film, play, performance)

the group to which a work—such as a publication, performance, or work of art—is directed. Target audience.

Audience or The Audience may also refer to:

Audience (meeting), a formal meeting between a head of state and another person

Audience measurement

Media and communications

Audience (company), a voice-processing company based in the U.S. state of California

Audience (magazine), an American literary journal

Audience (TV network), a former American satellite television channel

Music

Audience (band), a cult British art rock band which existed between 1969 and 1972, and again between 2004 and 2013

Audience (album), 1969

theaudience, a British Britpop band of the 1990s

Theaudience (album), 1998

The Audience (band), a German post-punk band

"Audience" (Ayumi Hamasaki song), 2000

"Audience" (Cold War Kids song), 2009

Plays

Audience (Havel play), a 1975 play by Václav Havel

Audience (play), a 1991 play by Michael Frayn

The Audience (1930 play), a 1930 play by Federico García Lorca

The Audience (2013 play), a 2013 play by Peter Morgan