The play’s cast members wrestle, slap and toss one another in ambitiously choreographed fight sequences that took months of training to learn.

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

The Japanese ex-sumo known as Gocchanko – real name Kodai Ota, whose schtick is wrestling passersby on the street – has been performing his busking feats before growing crowds. Gocchanko ...

The student government at University of California–Davis apologized for bringing a sumo wrestling fat suit on campus after people freaked out that it was racist — and now, at least one ...

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 ...

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