Far from the Madding Heights

Broadway World announces a new Brontë production next February in New York:

The World Premiere of
The Art of Sisters: Tales & Letters by the Brontës
Adapted and Directed by Miriam Canfield
February 21st and 22nd, 7:30pm
$25 General Admission
American Irish Historical Center
991 5th Avenue

Having been exposed to the hardships of life from a young age, the Brontë sisters' fertile minds and soulful natures were apt to express their understanding of the human experience by creating extraordinarily, original stories. The Art of Sisters: Tales and Letters by the Brontës, delves into these sisters lives and reveals Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë's personal struggles as they faithfully persevered.
Featuring the talents of: Miriam Canfield, Alida Rose Delaney, Katrina Michaels, Rae Nelson, Stuart Rudin, and Marshall Taylor Thurman.
Musical Arrangement and Original Composition by Nathan Ben-Yehuda
Costume Design by Liz Altmann + Mekenna Hartwig
Produced by KALIDASCOPES Media & MirCan Productions
Graphics by Kim Hoeckle
Photography by Shannon Finnell

The Telegraph lists the TV highlights of the week:

The Secret World of Emily BrontëChannel 4, December 29th, 6.05pm

Lily Cole came under fire for her appointment as creative partner to the Brontë Society for 2018, the bicentenary year of Emily Brontë’s birth. In this documentary, the Cambridge graduate and former model cannily uses Brontë’s life to show how the sexist expectations that fuelled such criticism were precisely what the writer herself tried to subvert. Cole travels a well-worn path to Brontë Country in Yorkshire, investigating Emily’s upbringing and the inspiration behind her 1847 masterpiece Wuthering Heights. Cole treks across Emily’s beloved moors, takes her own sister round the parsonage where the Brontës lived, and even interviews rock legend Patti Smith, who recently penned an introduction to Emily’s classic novel.
While the radical nature of Emily’s gender-busting achievement remains clear, Cole can’t rescue the facts of her life from their relative obscurity. Far more revealing, however, is Cole’s pet project – a short film that re-imagines the history of Heathcliff, the book’s foundling hero, from a modern perspective. It’s Cole’s work on this film that not only casts the brooding character in a whole new light, but also illuminates Emily’s own concerns afresh.
Jane Eyre (2011) ★★★★★
BBC One, January 2nd, 1.45pm

Cary Fukunaga’s adaptation respects Charlotte Brontë’s novel without following it blindly. Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender (as imposing as ever), put plenty of other Jane Eyre/Mr Rochester duets to shame; their performances are elevated by Moira Buffini’s excellent script. Fukunaga’s film is shot with masterly restraint and shorn of sentimentality. It would be hard to ask for more from Brontë on screen.

The Times 2018 literary quiz has some Brontë questions:

This year it was the bicentenary of Emily Brontë’s birth. Which Brontë sister wrote which novel?
36 Jane Eyre
37 Villette
38 Wuthering Heights
39 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
40 And which one of the three was married?

Cathy Earnshaw meets Gabriel Oak in Otago Daily News (New Zealand) :

The University Book Shop short story series brings you three stories in which local writers relocate famous fictional characters to Dunedin, and send them on twisted adventures. Today, Maria Ioannou follows Cathy on her search for a halfway decent Tinder date, as she spends  time far from the madding crowd with Gabriel Oak.

The Vindicator mentions a recent local concert:

Canfield Village Middle School’s seventh- and eighth-grade choirs, under the direction of Tom Scurich, performed their annual winter choir concert on Dec. 4.
The students performed to an auditorium packed with family and friends at Canfield High School. (...)
The seventh-grade choir opened the show with “Autumn Vesper,” by Emily Brontë and Audrey Snyder. (Abby Slanker)

Jim McKewon's Likely Stories goes into his 2019 readings on KWBU:

To continue my study of the Brontës and Jane Austen, I finally got a copy of The Juvenilia of Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë. I have a couple of pamphlets, but this is my fist time with their complete works.

La Voz de Galicia (Spain) talks about a recent translation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women:

 En Mujercitas, Alcott recogía la herencia de una época que ya había sido testigo de la Declaración de Sentimientos de Seneca Falls (1848, germen del sufragio femenino) y de personajes anteriores como Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) o algunas protagonistas de las novelas de Jane Austen. (Javier Armesto) (Translation)

Télérama (France) describes the TV series The Miniaturist:

La série en tire quelque chose de proche du conte de fées, baigné dans une pénombre quasi fantastique qui rappelle l’œuvre d’Angela Carter (La Compagnie des loups), Rebecca de Daphne du Maurier ou Jane Eyre de Charlotte Brontë. (Pierre Langlais) (Translation)

L'Echo (Belgium) reviews a Paula Rego exhibition at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris:

Mais elle pourrait tout aussi bien être la fille naturelle de Goya et de Charlotte Brontë, du sarcasme ironique pour le premier au féminisme radical pour la seconde, reprenant son destin aux hommes comme Jane Eyre, son héroïne. (Xavier Flament) (Translation)

Your Tango quotes 'sweet love quotes' (ahem) from Wuthering Heights; Jane Eyre's Library (in Spanish) posts about Penguin Australian edition of Jane Eyre. A couple of Brontë derivatives in the best reads 2018 list of Serena's Favorite Reads. Finally, a great post by What Rachel Wrote where she walks from Cowan Bridge to Tunstall Church, following the steps of the Brontës.