• David Hancock, Race of the Ark Tattoo
  • Rupert Holmes, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
  • Tony-n-Tina's Wedding
  • Neo-Futurists' Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
  • Currently on Broadway, in 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee four audience members are recruited before the show to participate in the onstage spelling bee. At the 2005 Tony awards, Reverend Al Sharpton joined them onstage and played along, but even the NY Times reported how the “Hakapoo man,” whose drunken antics—including ninja moves—almost hijacked the show. The screening process now includes keeping volunteers away from the bar before the show.
  • Now performing off-Broadway, Bingo incorporates audience members into the bingo hall setting where they, as fellow bingo players, get to play a few rounds as well as win real prizes. Book by Michael Heitzman & Ilene Reid; music by Michael Heitzman, Eileen Reid & David Holcenberg. 
  • In Monty Python’s Spamalot, the Holy Grail is found under an audience member’s seat.
  • Barry Humphreys in Dame Edna: Back with a Vengeance leads volunteer audience members in an impromptu script reading and gives psychic readings and marriage counseling.
  • The entire audience help vocalize Ophelia’s psychological struggle between her Id, Ego, and Superego in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) written by Jess Borgeson, Adam Long & Daniel Singer.
  • Spoofing the self-help movement, Out of Hand Theatre in Help! begin the show dividing the audience members based on their mental states: "Sad," "Poor," "Drunk" or simply "Fine” in order to help them to “learn to kick those Holiday blues, get off your ass, love yourself and your mother-in-law, and set out on the road to perfection at the wildest self-help seminar you’ll ever attend.”
  • Ayn Rand's play Night of January 16th involves a trial with two endings, based on which verdict is picked by an audience jury.
  • In Roberto Athayde’s Miss Margarida's Way—a one-woman show— the protagonist, a megalomaniacal biology teacher, picks on audience members. Audience members are also encouraged to vandalize the classroom set during intermission, and then humiliated during the second act.
  • Richard Schechner's Dionysus  69 had audiences choosing whether or not to rescue Pentheus.  Reportedly Schechner said the audience voted to change the story only once. 
  • The audience decides which rooms in the sinister Mr. Accousticus’ house Suzy will search to get her dog’s bark back in Mr. A's Amazing Maze Plays by Alan Ayckbourn.  
  • In Peter Pan the audience must clap to bring Tinker Bell back to life - the subject of a very funny monologue by Christopher Durang.
  • In Rinne Groffe’s Orange Yellow Egg Canary an audience member is invited onstage to participate in a magic trick.
  • Cirque du Soleil’s clowns often incorporate audience participation.
  • An audience member gets on stage with Plaid Tidings: A Forever Plaid Christmas (book by Stuart Ross) and the audience signs a guest book
  • Ducktastic, West End spoof on Las Vegas magic shows, has both genuine audience participation and a plant--portrayed by an actor in the audience holding a plant.
  • Romeo and Juliet, the Icelandic Version included one “plant” who somersaulted on stage and real audience members who stood up while the MC berated them.   
  • The Birds adapted by Len Jenkin had a bit of audience participation in act 2--someone had to stand up and hold their arms out to demonstrate wingspan. 
  • Tristan and Iseult by Kneehigh--apparently the audience gets involved in telling the story and setting the scene. At one point, everyone is required to blow up balloons provided with their programs.
  • The Bombitty of Errors--It had a lot of call and response between the cast and the audience.
  • Denver’s Avenue Theatre played Murder Most Fowl for over 10 years in a row. After finding pushy theatre producer murdered by a knife hidden in a plastic chicken, audiences peppered the actors with questions and voted on the end of the play.
  • Based on historical speeches and documents, Simon Spaulding’s The Convention of 1836 invites the audience to vote on the outcome of the signing of the Texas Declaration, which determines the end of the play.
  • Audience participation is highly popular with children’s theatre, including John Urquhart, Rita Grauer’s Nightingale and Dave Foxton’s Ivan and the Firebird.
  • Molly Rice's Hiroshima 2005: The Apology Module appears to bring on audience members in their corporate training session, where they act out situations. The volunteers, however, are actors.
  • The film The Man Who Knew Too Little is based on the premise that the protagonist believes he is involved in an audience-participatory play.
  • Irene Fornes's DR. KHEAL; Fefu and her friends
  • Augusto Boal's Forum Theater: audience members volunteer to act out potential solutions to a scene the company presents. (also Michael Rohd’s Hope is Vital project)
  • The Living Theatre, or Kaprow's Happenings.
  • Teatro Escambray's EL JUICIO turns the entire audience into a jury and exhorts them to decide the issue surrounding the introduction of Plan Vitrina after the revolution. Enrique Buenaventura's work with Teatro Experimental de Cali in an early play like SOLDADOS by Carlos Reyes asks audiences to step in and re-write scenes and the play's conclusion each time it is performed. Ceremony for Quetzalcoatl where the flayed skin of the sacrificial victim is then donned by all participating who dance in the guise of the god.
  • THE CONQUEST OF JERUSALEM performed by thousands of indians who have been prepared for baptism and, at the play's conclusion are baptized not only as characters, but in actuality, by a real priest who has replaced the actor playing that role for that purpose.