Hot Springs will welcome the heaviest sumo wrestler in the world and the widest sumo wrestler in the world to compete in the ...

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

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 ...

A Mongolian sumo wrestler has been promoted to the sport's highest rank in a ceremony on Friday. Hoshoryu, real name Sugarragchaa Byambasuren, became the 74th yokozuna, or grand champion ...

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 ...

And the thundering action is right in your face in the thrilling new play “Sumo.” Senior Editor and Writer Senior Editor and Writer [email protected] Got a tip? Send it to The Daily ...

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

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 ...

Lisa Sanaye Dring’s play at the Public Theater follows a stable of sumo wrestlers; Rajiv Joseph’s drama, presented by Manhattan Theatre Club, observes a Peace Corps volunteer and a State Department ...

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