Oft-injured yokozuna Kakuryu has retired from the sport, the Japan Sumo Association announced on March 24. Born in Mongolia, Kakuryu, 35, won six Emperor’s Cups, but has been noticeably absent ...

A small group sits in a windowless Public Theater rehearsal room, but the combination of dramatic taiko drumming, the sight of many of the actors clad only in the traditional mawashi (cloth-belt ...

A former sumo wrestler has ditched his mawashi belt and picked up the mic. And his songs are resonating with other people embarking on a new chapter in life.

“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 ...

the sight of many of the actors clad only in the traditional mawashi (cloth-belt) costumes, and the painful thwack, thwack, thwack of bodies hitting the hard surface of the dohyō (ring) over and over ...

But rarer, nonexistent even, is a theatrical work about sumo wrestling. Now, Lisa Sanaye Dring’s “Sumo” is transporting Off Broadway audiences at the Public Theater to an intimate sumo ...

By Jesse Green Lisa Sanaye Dring’s “Sumo” offers New Yorkers who are ... In a fictional Tokyo heya, or wrestling stable, a rigid hierarchy based on competitive achievement is brutally ...

Hoshoryu came to Japan to study wrestling at Nippon Sport Science University Kahiwa High School in Chiba Prefecture in 2015. There, he switched to the sumo team and made his professional debut at ...

Red Concepción may not have imagined that they’d end up in the ring when dreaming of being an actor in the Philippines, but fate has an interesting way of propelling us forward. Concepción now ...

Gocchanko began busking by singing in his outfit, before he found a market wrestling strangers.Credit: Justin McManus He began busking by singing while in his sumo outfit, wearing his mawashi ...

Step into the sacred world of sumo wrestling, with the New York premiere of Lisa Sanaye Dring’s mesmerizing new drama, SUMO. Akio arrives as an angry, ambitious 18-year-old with a lot to learn.