Unsurprisingly, the most memorable image in 'The Kite Runner,' which opened at the Helen Hayes Theater on Thursday night, is of the kites. They're miniature, attached to thin poles that several actors ...

Playwright Matthew Spangler’s adaptation of “The Kite Runner,” Khaled Hosseini’s bestselling 2005 novel about the friendship of two boys living parallel lives in Afghanistan, is a heartbreaker – but ...

A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who won’t stand up for anything. That father’s claim is as haunting as the political climate in which it’s expressed in “The Kite Runner,” a ...

Thanks to the likes of Robert Breen, Frank Galati and Mary Zimmerman, Chicago theater long has been famous for its dramatic interpretations of novels. The list is long: “The Grapes of Wrath,” “The ...

Here, in 1978, Marc Forster devotes much screen time to the relatively universal trivialities of childhood, like watching glorious American movies and, of course, flying colorful kites — in another ...

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Director Marc Forster's exceedingly respectful adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's international best seller "The Kite Runner" has both a subtle, captivating naturalism and some convenient plot turns that ...