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Audio Review: "Eldorado" by the National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre on the Air, Streaming at WYPR, Baltimore

by Dr. Mark Dreisonstok

In Voltaire's picaresque and satirical 1759 novel "Candide," Candide and company make their way to El Dorado, the legendary city of gold. In 1849, at the peak of the California Gold Rush, Baltimore author, Edgar Allan Poe, wrote his own poem about the fabled golden city. Now that poem has been expanded into a 23-minute […]

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 8:50pm on July 14, 2020