Theater-themed comics bonanza

Super-big edition for Memorial Day, and because I haven’t blogged much lately and got backlogged. This feature would not exist if not for two excellent online comic strip repositories, Daily Ink and GoComics. I’ve been a stalwart subscriber to both sites for years.
Notes:
1. Mime jokes never go out of style.
2. “Ventriloquism for Dummies” is already an old standard gag. The Non Sequitur strip is far from the first to use it.
3. You may not think of the Big Top strip as theatrical, but I do. It’s set at a circus, and the punchline to this one is “Paul Giamatti,” whom I personally first became of a fan of when he was a stage actor at the Yale School of Drama; Giamatti will return to New Haven next theater season to play Hamlet at the Yale Repertory Theatre.
4. Look closely at The Dinette Set strip. What’s on TV: the soap opera “As the World Sits,” starring… Godot! I put The Dinette Set in the same category as Zippy the Pinhead: when there do happen to be punchlines, they’re forced and obvious. The glory is in the details.
5. Both the Family Tree strip by Signe Wilkinson and Maintaining by Nate Creekmore had extended storylines about being in a school play. The Family Tree one is just wrapping up now, and has been going on for weeks.
6. Can’t figure out why Bucky Katt in Get Fuzzy wants Hamlet to be a story and not a play. On the other hand, the dog—Satchel Pooch—does bear a strong resemblance to Paul Giamatti.