1.   But you have to be careful not to give in to the theater audience too much.

2.   Has something happened to make the New York theater audience less adventurous and more wary of the unnerving?

3.   Hamlet stands to one side with his back to the theater audience and the royal entourage.

4.   He is writing for a theater audience, and few of its members are going to spend money to hear about head tones and appoggiaturas.

5.   He needs no guest stars to fill a house, and his wide appeal to a general theater audience does not run counter to the seriousness of his enterprise.

6.   In time, though, the need for spectators, for the reactions of a nontraditional theater audience, intensified.

7.   More likely, theater audiences -- unlike their multiplex counterparts who crunch and gab continuously -- simply know when to shut up and listen.

8.   Theater audiences seem to have a fixation with psychiatrists.

9.   Theater audiences, like oarsmen, tend to pull together.

10.   True, Gambon occasionally seems to be playing more to his theater audience than to Ms. Williams, particularly in the second act.