Review: La Jolla Playhouse’s ‘Sumo’ juices up a classic sports story with humor, visual pizzazz ...Middle East

For many Americans, the Japanese sport of sumo is a mystery. Though it resembles the Greco-Roman style of wrestling played at U.S. high schools, colleges and at the Olympics, sumo has its own rituals, costumes and Japanese terminology. Fortunately, Japanese American playwright Lisa Sanaye Dring is 10 steps ahead of the audience with her entertaining and funny world premiere play “Sumo,” which opened Sunday at La Jolla Playhouse’s Mandell Weiss Forum Theatre. In the opening seconds of the two-hour, 20-minute play, three playful wrestlers — who joke they’re part of an “all-Asian revival of ‘The Mikado’” — quickly explain the history of sumo, the terminology, the characters and their hierarch

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