The Marketing Department is charged with the development and execution of strategic plans to promote the institutional image, attract attendance, and sell tickets to the plays and related programs produced by the Theater. Our marketing program is directed toward sustaining and replenishing a base market of ticket-buyers that subscribe to a three- or four-play season in our 500-seat Courtyard Theater and increasing our audience base with expanded programming in the fall, spring and summer. Specific marketing, advertising, and publicity programs are directed to secure audiences for the 2008/09 Subscription Season in our 500-seat Courtyard Theater and in our Theater Upstairs at Chicago Shakespeare (a flexible, black box space that can seat up to 200 patrons). While Chicago Shakespeare Theater insists on a minimum time commitment of 10 weeks between late September and early December, the program is also flexible enough to meet the scheduling and academic needs of the intern.