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

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

Sumo is a style of wrestling that originated in ancient Japan. The first wrestler to touch the ground with any part of the body other than the soles of the feet, or to exit the ring, loses.

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 ...

Each night of wrestling will be preceded by sacred ... every effort to convey to the people of London the appeal of Sumo, an ancient traditional Japanese culture, and to ensure that everyone ...

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 student government at University of California–Davis apologized for bringing a sumo wrestling fat suit on campus after people freaked out that it was racist — and now, at least one ...

A former wrestler was assigned to appear in “Thermae Romae II,” a 2014 movie themed around a bathhouse architect from ancient ... coach in amateur sumo by drawing on his wrestling experience ...

Drums thundered and priests chanted as sumo's newest grand champion strode onto the public stage Friday in a ceremony to mark his promotion to the ancient Japanese sport's highest rank. Mongolian-born ...

NEW YORK -- Lisa Sanaye Dring's "Sumo" offers New Yorkers who are little exposed to that ancient Japanese discipline an opportunity ... In a fictional Tokyo heya, or wrestling stable, a rigid ...