“Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story” is coming back to New York’s SoHo Playhouse for a Dec. 2 to 13 run, creators Linus Karp and Joseph Martin announced Oct. 28, West End Best Friend reported.
Karp, a queer Swedish performer, plays Diana. She narrates her own story from heaven. Martin, his partner and co-creator, plays Charles, Camilla and a handful of others.
“We opened Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story in a small shipping container disguised as a theatre in a dodgy part of North London in 2022,” the pair said in the announcement. “Little did we know how that show would change our lives, take us across the world and now bring us to New York City.”
They kept going. “It is beyond a dream come true that people in the coolest city in the world (no homo) have embraced our ridiculous (and homo) creation like this. Thank you Lady Di!”
SoHo Playhouse Showtimes, Tickets and Content Warnings for ‘Diana’
Shows run at 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. on the Main Stage at 15 Vandam St., according to SoHo Playhouse. It’s 75 minutes long and recommended for ages 16 and up. Tickets are sold through the theater’s site.
The venue’s warning list includes flashing lights, strong language, puppetry, audience participation “and Camilla Parker Bowles.”
Recorded guest spots fill out the cast. Geri Allen plays the Queen, Zina Badran plays God and Rob Madge plays Mother Teresa, according to the show’s page at London’s Arcola Theatre. Jeanna de Waal makes a special appearance. She played Diana in the Broadway musical “Diana,” which was filmed for Netflix, TheWrap reported in 2020.
Awkward Prods follows it with “The (Very Gay) Christmas Prince” at the same theater, Dec. 16 to Jan. 3.
How Linus Karp and Joseph Martin Turned a Birthday Gift Into a Drag Hit
“The show started as a birthday present for Joseph’s mum, because she’s a big Diana fan,” Karp told Theatre Weekly in 2023. She turned 60 in 2021.
“We used to send her weird Diana gifts we’d find online, often not saying it was from us,” Martin said.
Karp called it “a stupid, queer, joyful celebration of Princess Diana that combines many art forms.” Comparing it with the Broadway musical, Martin said, “I would argue that ours is a bit more of a genuine tribute in some ways.”
Why drag? “Drag is a queer performance form and Diana is a queer icon,” Karp told Charles Hutch Press in York.
The show sold out at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2023 and won an OffFest Award for best play. It’s done three U.K. tours. A 2025 world tour went to Bangkok, Australia, Canada and Europe, according to Fairy Powered Productions. Its U.S. debut was at SoHo Playhouse in January, followed by Aspen’s Gay Ski Week and the Elysian Theater in Los Angeles.
Reviewing that January run, Front Mezz Junkies called Karp’s Diana “hilariously sharp,” though the review also found that repeated jokes weakened the satire. Not everyone’s a fan. The Arcola’s own page for the show quotes the Daily Mail calling it “repellent trash.”
