Much of the scholarship on Marlowe and the theatrical marketplace focuses on years at the end of the playwright’s career and beyond; comparatively little explores the company affiliation and repertorial context of Marlowe’s plays when they were new. In this essay, I explore the commercial landscape for drama from the late 1580s into 1593 from the perspective of Marlowe and the impact of his plays. Acknowledging widely-held opinions about the influence of Marlowe on literary aspects of non-Marlovian plays including characterization, dramatic verse, and genre, I focus on the business of playing for adult companies, specifically on their choice of venues and repertorial offerings, in order to align the scholarly tradition on Marlowe’s plays with current research on repertory-based company performance styles and theatrical venues.