A small group sits in a windowless Public Theater rehearsal room, but the combination of dramatic taiko drumming, the sight of many of the actors clad only in the traditional mawashi (cloth-belt) ...

It’s hard to picture a sumo wrestler playing golf, and it’s even harder to imagine why these 330 lbs men would be banned from playing the sport altogether. This is actually a story about one of the ...

The play’s cast members wrestle, slap and toss one another in ambitiously choreographed fight sequences that took months of training to learn. Credit... Supported by By Emmanuel Morgan Photographs and ...

ROSS MIHARA: Fast start. Hakuho has the yokozuna in trouble, but he bends a knee. DETROW: The Tokyo Grand Sumo Tournament comes to an end this weekend. Just ahead of the rise of a new yokozuna, or ...

Entrenched in an elite sumo training facility in Tokyo, six men practice, eat, love, play, and ultimately fight. Step into the sacred world of sumo wrestling, with the New York premiere of Lisa Sanaye ...

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“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-the-scenes ...