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.

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 ...

Image The playwright Lisa Sanaye Dring, here with the show’s director, Ralph B. Peña, said that there was “a beauty and a spirituality and an honor inside” of sumo that she found to be ...

Image Each of the sumo wrestlers gets a back story in Lisa Sanaye Dring’s play, including one involving Red Concepción, left, and Ahmad Kamal.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Dring ...

Takayasu, right, beats Wakamotoharu on the 13th day of the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament at Edion Arena Osaka on March 21, 2025. (Kyodo) OSAKA (Kyodo) -- Former ozeki Takayasu took a giant step ...

The Royal Albert Hall hosted sumo wrestling in 1991, but hasn't done so since. Image: Chris Christodoulou The last (and only) time that a sumo wrestling Grand Tournament took place outside of ...

Hoshoryu, left, earns his first win as a yokozuna by forcing out Wakatakakage on Day 2 of the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament at Edion Arena Osaka on March 10, 2025. (Kyodo) OSAKA (Kyodo ...