Fox said on Saturday that he and his crew had been subjected to a series of intimidating and disruptive behaviors during the run at the Public.

He said that he had been berated by festival staff just before a performance, that a sound technician had aggressively rushed the stage during a rehearsal and that written complaints to the Public from his crew, in which they had described not feeling safe, had gone unanswered.

He accused the Public’s employees of “anti-Semitic tropes.” When asked to explain, he said he had been told that he was too passionate, too loud and too emotional. “To me that is distinctly cultural,” he said. “That’s a classic anti-Semitic trope.”

And he has pointed to several major donors to the Public that, he said, have fossil fuel industry links. “The Public Theater takes a lot of oil and gas money, so we suspect that this was a factor,” Fox said.

The Public denied that its employees had behaved inappropriately or that its decision making had been influenced by any donors. “We have confidence that our staff did their best to treat Josh and his team with dignity and respect,” Bhola, the spokeswoman, said.

The theater, which is the birthplace of “Hair” and “Hamilton” and has regularly staged politically charged work about contemporary issues, said it had no concerns about the substance of Fox’s show. “The Public has a longstanding history of defending innovative and provocative artistry,” the theater said. “The content of Josh’s show had nothing to do with the cancellation.”