Parallelogramophonograph love to tell stories, and they've used their ongoing residency at ColdTowne Theater to create and experiment with new ways to do that. "After School Improv" parodied those cheesy after-school specials from the '70s and '80s; in "The 1930s," Pgraph used a combination of extensive research and innovative narrative techniques to bring out the comedy in the Great Depression; and "Family Portrait" put a magnifying glass on the inner lives and relationships of a different family each week. Parallelogramophonograph are always playful and funny, yet never afraid to let dramatic moments add the bitter to their sweet improvised stories.