The phrase "audience has read" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the reading habits or comprehension of a specific audience regarding a text or material.
Example: "The effectiveness of the presentation depends on how well the audience has read the provided materials beforehand."
Alternatives: "the audience has perused" or "the audience has reviewed".
The idea is to write something concise and comprehensible to an audience that has read the texts you are commenting on.
"It's for the kid in the audience who has read the book but doesn't go the theater much, and this is his first show — so I want the story to absorb him and transport him," Mr. Greig said.
There is none of the screechy didacticism that plagues a play like "The Vertical Hour," no lectures on neo-conservatism or the value of civil liberties ("Arrivals") that seem to imagine there isn't a single person in the audience who has read a newspaper in the last 20 years.
But his tirades may focus on just about anything -- New Jersey, members of the audience, whatever he has read in the paper that morning.
Most literary fiction on television has the advantage that almost no one in the audience will have read it.
Bosch's audience would have read such images literally, fearing the monsters swarming out of Hell and craving the refreshing serenity of Heaven.
Mr. Columbus (who is also an executive producer of the films) has faced the unenviable and unusual challenge of adapting books most of the audience will have read closely and recently.
It continues to make him a magnetic figure even to audiences who have read little of his slender output.
Now, beat poetry isn't everyone's thing and it's doubtful that general audiences will have read the works Ginsberg references through the poem itself--Sigmund Freud's Civilization and its Discontents, and Friedrich Nietztche's On the Geneaology of Morals among them--which is why the film's combination of narrative, documentary and animation elements is so effective.
