Mentiras was already one of Mexican theater’s great success stories. Mentiras All Stars is showing just how much bigger that story can become.
For more than a decade and a half, Mentiras El Musical has turned the heartbreak anthems of 1980s Mexican and Latin pop into one of the country’s most recognizable theatrical experiences. Created by José Manuel López Velarde and first staged in 2009, the original production has surpassed 4,000 performances, while López Velarde’s own site credits the show with more than one million spectators.
But Mentiras All Stars represents something different.
Rather than simply reproducing the original musical, All Stars takes the characters, music and cultural identity of Mentiras and turns them into a larger live entertainment event — part musical theater, part concert and part reunion of the growing “Mentiverso.”
From Musical to All-Star Event
The All Stars concept arrived in October 2025, with early performances at Mexico City’s Centro Cultural Teatro 1 featuring Belinda as Daniela and Mariana Treviño returning as Lupita.
The timing mattered.
By then, Mentiras had developed far beyond its original production. The universe included MentiDrags, concert formats and a screen adaptation, creating an audience that could recognize these characters across different mediums.
All Stars brought those worlds together.
For its 2026 incarnation, Belinda and Treviño were joined by Danna, while performers including Paola Gómez, Lorena Vignau, Paloma Cordero and Georgina Levin represented the traditional musical and Regina Voce, Ángel Ferreyro, Fer Soberanes and Carlos Fonseca brought the MentiDrags side of the franchise into the same production.
The result is intentionally bigger than the original show. Familiar characters can appear in multiple interpretations, additional songs enter the repertoire and choreography and large-scale production numbers become as important as traditional storytelling.
The Formula Worked
In September 2026, Mentiras All Stars moved into Mexico City’s Auditorio Nacional, where two performances played to packed audiences. The production subsequently traveled to Monterrey and Guadalajara.
Then came an important test: the United States.
On September 19, All Stars made its U.S. debut at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California — positioning the production as something potentially exportable beyond Mexico rather than simply another domestic theater spin-off.
The show returned to the Auditorio Nacional on November 8. Cuartoscuro documented Belinda, Mariana Treviño and Danna performing before thousands alongside musical and drag performers, another indication of how effectively the franchise has turned nostalgia into a large-format event.
Bigger Shows Bring Bigger Challenges
Expansion has not been flawless.
During the Los Angeles performance, press reports documented technical problems involving audio, microphones, stage lifts and scenic elements. The performers continued the show, but the incidents exposed one of the risks that comes with transforming a theater property into a technically ambitious touring spectacle.
That may be the most important challenge facing All Stars.
The franchise already has the songs. It has recognizable characters, celebrity talent and an unusually loyal audience. Scaling the production now requires consistency — technically, creatively and logistically — particularly when major performers have careers and schedules outside the show.
There is also an expectation issue. All Stars is deliberately not the traditional version of Mentiras. Audiences expecting the original narrative may instead encounter something closer to a theatrical pop event. The production’s success will depend partly on making that distinction clear.
Where the Mentiverso Goes Next
As of November 9, no later Mentiras All Stars performance is listed on Ticketmaster following the November 8 Auditorio Nacional shows.
But the direction of travel is already visible.
In barely a year, All Stars moved from a special theatrical production to the Auditorio Nacional, touring dates and a U.S. debut. It demonstrates that the intellectual property created around Mentiras can support several formats simultaneously.
The next opportunity is not simply another theater season.
It is turning the Mentiverso into an expandable Mexican entertainment franchise — capable of moving between traditional theater, streaming, drag performance, celebrity casting, concert-scale productions and potentially additional international markets.
After 17 years, the biggest achievement of Mentiras may be that it has figured out how not to stand still.