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

He always had a major handicap as a sumo wrestler because he found it difficult ... the example of Kitaharima who continued to do his best even after falling to sandanme. One opponent Kitaharima ...

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

Sumo wrestler Konishiki Yasokichi rates eight sumo fights in movies and TV shows, such as "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "Isle of Dogs," for realism. Konishiki discusses the accuracy of throwing ...

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

A Mongolian sumo wrestler has been promoted to the ... "I want to act properly as a yokozuna and do my best," he said. AFP/ Getty Images A yokozuna cannot be demoted and is expected to retire ...

The only professional sumo wrestler ever to emerge from these isles ... he pretends to be on the best of terms. His soliloquies reveal his true nature. He directs his innermost thoughts to the ...

A Mongolian sumo wrestler has been promoted to the ... "I want to act properly as a yokozuna and do my best," he said. Around 3,500 fans arrived at the Meiji Shine in Tokyo to see the 25-year ...

A remote island in western Japan is a spiritual home for sumo wrestling. For hundreds of years ... Despite the language barrier, the locals did their best to make their guests feel like part ...

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 ...