“The Play That Goes Wrong,” the first show by Top Hat Productions’ Tri-City Drama Club, opens Friday.

The club brings together students from Campbell, Lowellville, and Struthers high schools. Two of the school districts, Campbell and Struthers, currently lack school-sponsored theater programs for high school students.

Top Hat offers the drama club at no cost to the students or school districts. Tri-City’s goals are to provide theater instruction in onstage acting as well as mentor students in the technical aspects of stage management, costuming, sound and lighting and promotional activities including graphic design, marketing and sales.

In addition to providing performing arts opportunities for the students, participation helps promote creativity and imagination, hone public speaking skills, and strengthen critical thinking, collaboration, communication and leadership abilities.

“The Play That Goes Wrong” — written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields — is a play within a play. The audience is watching a production by the Cornley University Drama Society of a 1920s mystery called “The Murder at Haversham Manor.” The society’s actors have a lot of can-do spirit, but not much talent nor the money needed to stage the show. From the performances to the props to the set, everything goes — as the title indicates — hilariously wrong.

Volunteer co-directors Mia DiRenzo Olson and Valerie Dill lead a cast and crew of 17 students. Top Hat technical oversight is being provided by Jeff Chann, Christina Kopscos, and Derek Stoner.

“The Play That Goes Wrong” will be staged at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday through March 3 at Fairview Arts and Outreach Center, 4220 Youngstown-Poland Road, Youngstown. Tickets are $17 for adults and $15 for students and senior citizens and are available online at tophatproductions.thundertix.com.