La Jolla Playhouse hosts the world premiere of Japanese-American playwright Lisa Sanaye Dring's play about the ancient Japanese sport, sumo.
You can listen to playwright Lisa Sanaye Dring's Midday Edition interview from last week.JADE HINDMON Welcome back to KPBS Midday Edition. I'm Jade. Hindmon. Next week, La Jolla Playhouse hosts the world premiere of Sumo, a play that looks into an elite sumo training facility in Tokyo. Six men practice, live together and ultimately fight each other there.
"SUMO" runs through Oct. 22 at La Jolla Playhouse's Mandell Weiss Forum."SUMO" was part of the La Jolla Playhouse's
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