I’ve had good experience with 311 if you politely follow up — sometimes the notice says “3” or “10” days til the next update. You don’t always have to wait a month.

DM them on Twitter too. If the grate is actually the water department (NYC DEP) or Con Ed (not a city agency obviously) you can tweet/DM them on Twitter too.

Con Ed responds fast because they’re a private company and are liable if they ignore problems for too long.

Nope — that was the party at the very beginning when the first murder occurred.

That was several nights before, when the first murder took place. I'm talking about halfway through the film when Stoppard invited Stalker to attend the play with him to see if they could find anything. Somehow, ALL the suspects also attended (including the actors, obviously) and then many of them went into the hallway, causing Stoppard and Stalker to (separately) follow them. I can't imagine why this happened in terms of character. I KNOW why it happened for the plot, because it was the second murder and we needed lots of suspects to be present.

I'm talking about the playwright, the producer, etc. They must have seen the play a thousand times but they were in the audience with their dates. Then they all went to the hallway just a few minutes into the show -- why? Except to give us a lot of suspects for the second murder?