The week in theatre: Player Kings; Red Pitch; Underdog: The Other Other Brontë – review
Underdog: The Other Other Brontë review – modern mashup pits deceitful sister as a ruthless rival
March 2024
Wuthering fights: the play that shows the Brontës were bigger backstabbers than the Kardashians
Rivalries, putdowns, betrayals … director Natalie Ibu explains why she is thrilled to be making her National Theatre debut with an award-winning play about the famous writing sisters
January 2024
‘What do Saudi developers know of Heathcliff?’ Brontë country up in arms over windfarm plan
Mooted project in West Yorkshire could cause ‘heartbreaking’ disruption for wildlife and harm local tourist industry, say critics
November 2023
Campaigners save Bradford birthplace of Brontë sisters
Crowdfunding and significant donation from Nigel West – who has a family connection to Charlotte’s husband – secure property, with plans to transform it into a cultural and education centre
October 2023
Reader, they lived there: campaign to save Brontës’ Bradford birthplace as it goes on sale
A crowdfunding drive led by TV presenter Christa Ackroyd aims to make the first Bradford home of the literary siblings a tourist destination and source of inspiration
The classic novel reimagined as a sort of police procedural becomes a storm of ideas struggling to find definition
April 2023
Wuthering Heights review – a deliciously dark Brontë with its jagged edges restored
Coal-black humour propels Brontë’s tale of murderous desire, animal torture and family abuse
October 2022
The Moors review – deliciously dark Brontë pastiche
The characters might be the Brontës themselves or they might be from novels such as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, mashed-up with wandering strays from a zombie movie
Mark Kermode's film of the week
Emily review – the wildest Brontë sister is set free in full-blooded gothic fable
The author of Wuthering Heights is no sickly recluse in actor turned director Frances O’Connor’s sensuous, spine-tingling feature debut
Film Emily will introduce Brontë sisters to younger audiences, says co-star
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Emily review – love, passion and sex in impressive Brontë biopic
Frances O’Connor: ‘I’m putting Emily Brontë in the centre of her own story’
September 2022
First look review
Emily review – sensitive Brontë biopic is a thrillingly unconventional watch
Toronto film festival: Sex Education’s Emma Mackey makes for a perfect Emily Brontë in actor turned writer-director Frances O’Connor’s deft drama
June 2022
Ten reasons why Bradford deserves to be 2025’s city of culture
From Charlotte Brontë to David Hockney and Zayn Malik, my home town of Bradford has a rich cultural history – and its beauty is balm for the soul
April 2022
I Am No Bird review – stripping back the Brontës’ chocolate-box history
This anarchic show casts off the corsets to capture just what made these literary sisters so striking
December 2021
Lost library of literary treasures saved for UK after charity raises £15m
The Honresfield library, including manuscripts by the Brontës, Jane Austen and Walter Scott, had been at risk of falling into private hands
November 2021
The books of my life
Siri Hustvedt: ‘I responded viscerally to De Beauvoir’s The Second Sex’
The US author on becoming a feminist, growing into Gertrude Stein, and the comfort of folk tales
October 2021
Wuthering Heights review – Emma Rice’s audacious riff on Emily Brontë’s classic
Retelling the gothic novel with intelligently charming humour and a live band, this is a bold and ingenious production
September 2021
‘My blood stirred, my mind fizzed’: Emma Rice on Wuthering Heights
Horrified by the cruelty shown to children seeking asylum in Britain, the director has adapted Emily Brontë’s book which has haunted her since her teens
