Legs taut, backs bent at the waist, the wrestlers slowly stretched out their arms towards each other, searching for a grip ...

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

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

The stage is transformed into a ring. The actors are barely clothed in the traditional costume. And the thundering action is right in your face in the thrilling new play “Sumo.” Senior Editor ...

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

We investigate how rikishi perceive the sumo ring, a circle 4.55 meters across. Along the way we highlight the work that goes into constructing it and how rikishi grip the clay with their toes.

In a fictional Tokyo heya, or wrestling stable, a rigid hierarchy based on competitive ... Peña's staging, mostly within a simple 15-foot sumo ring designed by Wilson Chin, provides plenty of intense ...