The phrase "audience is responding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the reactions or feedback of an audience during a presentation, performance, or event.
Example: "As the speaker continued, the audience is responding with enthusiastic applause and cheers."
Alternatives: "the audience is reacting" or "the audience is engaging".
The audience is responding.
At a performance in Iran, the audience is responding to more than a theatrical experience.
The Huffington Post sometimes tests two different headlines in real time to see which the audience is responding to.
You belong to the throng of identically masked people who have chosen to assemble where you are, and the blank visages offer no signals as to how the audience is responding.
Peter Bart, the editor-in-chief of Variety, who was an executive at Paramount in the seventies, put it to me this way: "During the late sixties and seventies, the studios would look at the box-office results and conclude, 'Aha, the audience is responding to "Midnight Cowboy" and "The Graduate".
One solution to this problem is to create a feedback loop to listen to users' reactions and adjust the decisions depending on how the audience is responding to the prediction outcome.
"It might become a problem if we believed the whole of the audience was responding on Twitter but that is not likely to happen for a very long time, if ever.
"About halfway through the second scene, after Harry's first big aria, where he talks of having seen heaven and hell, I thought, 'Wow, this is actually going to work.' The way the audience were responding was wonderful – laughing at the funny bits, engaging with the characters.
Those in the audience were responding to a blizzard of different talks and performances, from Hugh Masekela's reflections on the influence of western culture on Africa to Plan B's plea to reach out to disadvantaged youths; or from Giles Duley's account of his photography and life-changing accident in Afghanistan to Tali Sharot on the neuroscience of optimism.
There are signs, at least in the short term, that audiences are responding.
These movies are decidedly low-tech, and audiences are responding to that".
