'audience reception' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the reaction of listeners or viewers to a particular performance, spectacle, or presentation. For example, "The audience reception to the singer's performance was overwhelmingly positive."
Audience reception is also an issue.
The audience reception was kind, but not electric.
A retailer has been interposed between theatrical message and audience reception.
Topics include censorship, audience reception, and current translingual and cross-cultural trends.
The audience reception was astounding, and certainly will be the subject of more than one analysis.
Mr. Lam, the director, is known to be very sensitive about audience reception to his work.
As I will show, these audiences' reception illuminate waiting, structures of the waiting process, names for waiting, and the awaited" (6).
In Paris, several of his works (for example the Second Symphony) were performed, but the audiences' reception was now lukewarm and Prokofiev sensed that he "was evidently no longer a sensation".
To judge from the audience's reception, Mr. Alagna and Ms. Gheorghiu, opera's most noted husband-and-wife team, were hardly missed.
Lib Dem campaign chiefs declared themselves chuffed with Tim Farron's performance, particularly the audience gleeful reception of his final joke - that viewers should switch off for Rudd's statement and watch Bake Off instead.
But there are a lot of Chris Kyles in the world, and the chasm between Eastwood's intent and his audience's reception touches on the old Chappelle's Show conundrum: a lot of white people laughed at Dave Chappelle's rapier racial satire for the wrong reasons, in ways that may have actually exacerbated stereotypes about black people in the minds of intellectual underachievers.
