“The theater and its board immediately addressed the incidents it knew about,” said Ms. Pappano, who is also a freelance journalist who has regularly contributed work to The Times.

“It is misleading and unfair to imply it did not respond to occurrences that were never reported and of which it had no notice,” she said. “We know of no instance in which a report was made and not acted upon.” She said the theater had not received any complaints of sexual misconduct since Ms. Rubinstein’s in 2006.

In interviews, several women described sexual misconduct and crude remarks by Mr. Edelstein. Halley Feiffer, a playwright and actress, said she was groped by him in 2008, when she was performing in a revival he directed of “Some Americans Abroad,” a comedy by Richard Nelson, at Second Stage, an Off Broadway theater.

“We were at an opening night party, and I walked by him and he grabbed my butt,” Ms. Feiffer said. “I remember thinking that I must have made it up, or that’s my fault for walking so close to him, and then thinking I have to be really careful around him, but he runs a theater and I want to be a playwright and I want him to produce my plays one day, so that’s why I never said anything or did anything — I wanted to be in his good graces because he’s powerful.”

Annie DiMartino, the former head of the Long Wharf education department, said that in 2010, “we were sitting at a holiday party — and once Gordon has some drinks he becomes very loose — and he grabbed my hand and placed it on his crotch under the table.”

Laura Collins-Hughes, now a freelance theater critic at The Times, said that in 2003, when she was attending a Long Wharf gala as the arts editor for The New Haven Register, “he kissed me on the lips, and his lips were wet, and it was lingering and disgusting.” She did not report the incident to the theater.