For the season’s fourth performance, Buffalo State College and Casting Hall Productions present Seven Keys to Baldpate, a frenzied farce and melodrama gone mad written by George M. Cohan.

The Buffalo State Theater Department debut is March11 with performances through March 20.

What happens when a novelist is challenged to write his next book in one day? More stories than he bargained for in this zany, hilarious mystery. Arranging to sequester himself in a remote rustic inn, the novelist assumes that he has the only key to the place. As the evening wears on, the inn becomes the rendezvous for several mysterious characters--all of whom have keys of their own--and the site of a startling murder. The novelist tries to figure out the goings-on, but just when he has put the clues together, the lock in the door clicks. The seventh key!

The show is directed by Donn Youngstrom, associate professor of theater. The cast includes: Michael Zito (Mr. Quimby), Brianna Kaminskas (Mrs. Quimby), Laron Bradley (William Hallowell Magee),  Bryan Figueroa (John Bland),  Bryan Figueroa (John Bland),  Meghan Morono (Mary Norton),  Candace Morrison (Mrs. Rhodes),  James R. Steiner (Peters),  Kara Lynn Ashby (Myra Thornhill),  Travis Brown (Mayor Jim Cargan), Paul Gabrielli (Lou Max),  Marcus A. Scott (Thomas Hayden),  and Eyton Robinson (Jiggs Kennedy).

Show dates and times are: March 11-13 and 18-20, 8:00 p.m. with matinees on March 13 and 20, 2:00 p.m. Performances are in Warren Enters Theater, Upton Hall at Buffalo State College. For more information and tickets, please call (716) 878-3005 or visit www.buffalostate.edu/theater. General admission is $15; students, $10; Buffalo State students, $6; high school students, free.  All students must have valid ID.