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 ...

Khaled Hosseini’s 2003 tearjerker novel “The Kite Runner” has no shortage of terrible traumas: deaths, beatings, a rape, the disastrous takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban. To say the very least, ...

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 ...

“A land mine,” observes a sardonic character in “The Kite Runner,” now landed on Broadway in the summer heat. “Is there a more Afghan way to die?” That shocking line, taken directly from the 2003 ...

Which octopus kite is best? There are all kinds of kites, but octopus kites are particularly fun. They always come with the correct number of tentacles and, when constructed properly, those tentacles ...

Recipient of a special jury mention in the Tribeca Festival’s tricky-to-define Viewpoints category, Walter Thompson-Hernandez’s debut “Kites” gently asks the audience to meet the project on its own ...