Reflections from the Audience: Sixty Years of Attending Thousands of Performances-and Writing About Them - Paperbackby Les Epstein (Author) Les Epstein attended thousands of live performances of opera, theater, and concerts. You might say he became a collector of live performances. What!? How does one collect live performances? Since 1960, every time he attended a theater, concert hall, or opera house, he wrote a review his "take" on what he had seen. There are about four thousand reviews in his collection, but fear not, only a very few appear in their entirety.