To enhance your students’ understanding of each performance, HOT guidebooks offer thematic learning units, lesson plan suggestions, and background information that will help you create classroom and life learning contexts for your students. HOT guidebooks provide specific production details, artistic insights, and study materials for use before and after each performance.

Due to the generous underwriting of our season sponsor, we are able to publish the guidebook materials and send them to teachers attending the HOT Season for Young People free of charge. Guidebooks are mailed to teachers and are available online four to six weeks prior to a production.

All guidebooks require Adobe Acrobat.

Click a show below to access its HOT Season for Young People guidebook online.

PLEASE NOTE: Guidebooks are posted 4-5 weeks prior to the performance.

2011 - 2012
Exploration and Discovery: Sculptures in Public Square Park La Traviata The Rivalry Alice in Wonderland San Jose Taiko	Treasured Stories by Eric Carle Diavolo Dance Theater Fisk Jubilee Singers Of Mice and Men Zorro
2010 - 2011
To Kill A Mockingbird Letters Home Post Comedy Theater Hansel and Gretel The Frog Bride Nutcracker A Christmas Carol	Fisk Jubilee Singers ® The Glass Menagerie MOMIX Botanica Before the People Came Performance in which Hopefully Nothing Happens
2009 - 2010
Jason and the Argonauts Tosca The Very Hungry Caterpillar and other Eric Carle Favorites Urban Bush Women Fiesta Mexicana Romeo and Juliet	Frindle Fisk Jubilee Singers ® Rigoletto The Man Who Planted Trees The Sea Serpent
2008 - 2009
The Drum Is the Thunder, the Flute Is the Wind Luna Negra Dance Theater Jason and the Argonauts Amahl and the Night Visitors A Christmas Carol The Iliad Circus INcognitus! Fisk Jubilee Singers ®	Spirit Horse The Gruffalo Mayhem Poets Farfalle (Butterflies) Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters Ghost Ballet for the East Bank Machineworks
2007 - 2008
The Crucible Echoa A Christmas Carol Snowflake Nutcracker H.M.S. Pinafore San Jose Taiko	Teddy Roosevelt and the Treasure of Ursa Major Julius Caesar Simon Shaheen & Qantara A Year with Frog and Toad
2006 - 2007
Macbeth Hot Notes and Cool Keys:  The Piano Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra A Christmas Carol	Little Donkey Strings of Fire Eclipse:  Visions of the Crescent and the Cross Moving Beyond Balance
2005 - 2006
1776 Sones de México Surrender Road	A Christmas Carol Home on the Mornin' Train
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