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

I’ll be training with two of the world’s heaviest sumo wrestlers- Yama and Rami - alongside Igor Voitenko. With just five hours of training, we’ll step into the ring for a full sumo match to see if we ...

dirt ring. Since this usually takes less than a minute and Japanese wrestling matches last all day, most of the time is devoted to ceremonies in which sumo is the richest pastime in the world.

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

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

Two more of the sumo wrestlers set to face off on April 11 at the All Star Sumo round robin tournament at Bank OZK Arena have ...

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

Ryuichi Yamamoto, who goes by the name Yama and competed as a professional sumo wrestler in Japan, has started teaching sumo classes at the Arnold Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Martial Arts Studio.

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 ...

Check out new production photos for The Public Theater and Ma-Yi Theater Company’s New York premiere of SUMO, a new play written by Lisa Sanaye Dring and directed by Obie Award winner Ralph B.