[1] It was founded in 1979 by Ike Schambelan(who died of cancer in 2015), with sighted actors recording plays for the blind.
Crystal Clear by Phil Young opened in 1986 at the Long Wharf Theater's Stage II.
"[3] Another critic said the play was "a wildly unfocused work that tries to cover too vast a terrain" and that it contained "a cornucopia of cliches".
[4] A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare staged at the Barrow Group Theater in Manhattan, was the first play by TBTB to feature a character in a wheelchair: It holds Ann Marie Morelli, an actress playing Hermia, who at first has the attention of one too many men but later finds herself with the attention of one too few.
In 2020 as a result of the pandemic they presented playwriting intensives and performances via Zoom with captions and audio descriptions.