Just like the Japanese sport it's inspired by, the new off-Broadway play is part ritual, part athletic spectacle.

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

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

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 ...

With the ranks of prospective sumo wrestlers thinning out, the Japan Sumo Association is beefing up recruitment by dropping the height and weight requirements from its recruitment test ...

In the bustling streets of Melbourne's City, a remarkable figure has recently caught the public's attention—a heavyweight sumo wrestler known as Gocchanko (real name Kodai Ota). As a former ...

A historic fight between sumo wrestlers and the Megumi firefighting gang is dramatized in this play, which ends in a free-for-all on stage. Kabuki actor Kataoka Ainosuke is our guide.

Less than two weeks after the sole yokozuna retired from the sport, the Japan Sumo Association on Jan. 29 filled the void by promoting Hoshoryu, 25, to be the 74th yokozuna. The JSA decision came ...

But instead, "Sumo" puts its characters' quasi-sadistic initiations and humiliations in the context of the sport's spiritual ethos, with its echoes of Shinto purification and the foundational fight ...