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

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

“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 ...

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

The Public Theater and Ma-Yi Theater Company just celebrated opening night of the New York premiere of SUMO, a new play ...

This month's ECOWAS wrestling tournament, however, marked the first time that the annual showdown featured a women's division. Legs taut, backs bent at the waist, the wrestlers slowly stretched out ...

Beyond the spectacle of two massive men colliding with thunderous force, sumo embodies a link to Japan’s history and social values. It is a pathway through which tradition is preserved and passed down ...

One wrestler leaves the heya in shame; another apparently kills himself. A gay subplot, daring in the context of Japanese sumo, is so delicately and abstractly handled it's hard to follow. We are told ...

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

Shopping carts with toilet paper, lawnmower races, sumo cage wrestling? Welcome to the world of the Florida Man Games, held ...