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 ...

But does it? Or does time ask for too much — silence, forgetting, pretending — before it gives anything back? In The Kite Runner, even after 26 years, Amir’s past follows him quietly until he has no ...