1973 - Linda Mussmann establishes Time & Space Limited in New York City as an experimental & avant-garde theatre. She produces the company’s first performance, Eugene Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano, at the Zarattini Bond Street Theater on Great jones Street in the Bowery.

After this production, Mussmann and TSL move to the Universalist Church on West 76th street where she becomes director-in-residence and produces over fifteen classics in a span of three years. Mussmann quickly develops into one of New York’s most creative and ground-breaking young directors of the off-off Broadway scene.

1976 - Claudia Bruce is working as an actress and as a reporter for the feminist newspaper Majority Report. On assignment, Bruce goes to see Mussmann’s production of Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans.

The two begin working and collaborating together shortly after.

1970s-1980s - Mussmann and Bruce continue to produce and perform theatre productions through TSL that break through boundaries of conventional theatre. Their work transcending the confines of narrative, and integrating dance, visual art, light and stage design, video projection, and especially —language and sound. The Time and Space Limited ensemble, often including international artists, perform in traditional and alternative spaces in NYC such as La Mama E.T.C., Merce Cunningham Studio, A.I.R. Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Cooper Hewitt Museum. TSL starts touring through Canada, Germany, Denmark, and throughout the U.S.

1990 - Time and Space Limited joins other artists and organizations in rejecting funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, in protest of the agencies’ stipulation that recipients of the funding promise not to produce “obscene” work.