Fly-By-Night Productions’ 43rd Season
2025-2026
We're excited to present our new season of shows!
AN INTERVIEW WITH ORSON WELLES
Famous Dead Artist Series
Saturday, January 24, 2026 - 7:30 pm
Sunday, January 25, 2026 - 2:00 pm
@ The Historic Lacy Mansion, 1640 Main Street,
Dubuque, Iowa 52001
Fly-By-Night Productions reintroduces the former Famous Dead Artist Series co-conceived by Ed Ritts and Margaret Buhr. Join us and meet Orson Welles, American stage and film actor, writer, director and producer known for his large personality and innovative work in theatre, film and radio during the 1930s to 1980s. Portraying Welles will be Dakota Vaassen, with Kevin Firnstahl as interviewer and host, and scripted by Margaret Buhr.
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett,
newly adapted by Wendy Kesselman
MARCH 13, 14, 15, & 20, 21, 2026
@ The Bijou Room, Five Flags Center
Dubuque, Iowa
Historical drama
Based on the original historic Anne Frank diary published in 1947- this is an updated adaptation of the
original 1955 play, with some added diary entries. The play tells the story of the Frank family, the Van Daan family and Mr. Dussel, all Jewish, who, from 1942-1944, hid from the Nazis, in an annex above Otto Frank’s business in Amsterdam, Holland. It derives from the diary Anne kept. While it is a familiar
play, the story is timeless. FBNP feels the time is ripe and poignant to reintroduce the play for our audience to revisit and experience. There’s a whole generation, who may not really know the story…but should.
WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME
by Heidi Schreck.
JUNE 5, 6, 7, & 12, 13, 2026
@ The Bluff Strokes Art Center 1201 Locust Street,
Dubuque, Iowa
Endearingly funny and deeply affecting autobiographical drama.
This play is pretty much a one-woman tour de force featuring Stephanie Bussan. Based on teenage Heidi Schreck’s personal experience participating in high school American Legion US Constitution contest debates and then revisiting with the audience her questions and thoughts in her adult age.
“Brilliantly digressive, insistently personal. The play is a both a winsome love letter to and worried
critique of one of the nation’s founding documents.” Laura Collins, New York Times