An Off Broadway play opens a window on the spiritual and physical trials of the ancient Japanese sport.

Lisa Sanaye Dring’s play at the Public Theater follows a stable of sumo wrestlers; Rajiv Joseph’s drama, presented by ...

Entrenched in an elite sumo training facility in Tokyo, six men practice, eat, love, play, and ultimately fight. Step into the sacred world of sumo wrestling, with the New York premiere of Lisa ...

The play’s cast members wrestle, slap and toss one another in ambitiously choreographed fight sequences that took months of training to learn.

Each is only allowed to train one foreign wrestler, and as Japan is the only country with professional sumo, the majority of fighters are homegrown. The winner of the men's amateur Sumo World ...

The Brazilian submission specialist famously used the gentle art of jiu-jitsu to subdue much bigger men to win three fights ... to face a 6ft 8in, 490lb sumo wrestler. ‘David vs Goliath ...

Read reviews for The Public Theater and Ma-Yi Theater Company’s New York premiere of SUMO, a new play written by Lisa Sanaye ...

Aonishiki, who is 182cm in height and weighs a relatively modest 136kg, discovered sumo as a boy, practicing judo and ...

A gay subplot, daring in the context of Japanese sumo, is so delicately and abstractly handled it's hard to follow. We are told more about the men's in vitro feelings than we are permitted to see them ...

“Sumo,” a new play by Lisa Sanaye Dring about the Japanese wrestling sport, naturally has a certain exoticism given the cultural specificity of its subject. But it’s also a classic behind ...