 Stephens had further successes with "The Vicar of Wide-awake-field" and "Little Jack Sheppard" (both 1885, with music by Lutz) under George Edwardes's management at the Gaiety Theatre.In 1884, Solomon and Lillian Russell sued Stephens for libel, but by 1889 Solomon and Stephens were friendly enough to collaborate on a successful musical comedy, "The Red Hussar" (1889), starring Marie Tempest and Arthur Williams.Stephens also wrote novels, plays, pantomimes, and an 1899 revue, "A Dream of Whitaker's Almanack", with Walter Slaughter, Pascal, Georges Jacobi and Walter Hedgecock.