 Following the end of Will & Grace , McCormack starred on the New York stage opposite Fran Drescher , Judy Reyes , Brooke Smith , and Maura Tierney , in Neil LaBute 's Off Broadway play Some Girl ( s ) at the Lucille Lortel Theatre . He plays a writer who is ready to settle down and marry , but decides to visit four ex @-@ girlfriends first . For his performance , McCormack received critical reviews . New York Times contributor Ben Brantley , in review of the production , wrote : " Playing a thoughtless , woman @-@ despising heterosexual , Mr. McCormack isn 't much different from when he was playing a thoughtful , woman @-@ worshiping homosexual . As in Will & Grace , he <unk> every other line for maximum comic spin and punctuates his dialogue by earnestly furrowing his features " . Brantley went on to say that McCormack 's interpretation of the character is " certainly a more slickly sustained performance " than the one delivered by David Schwimmer in 2005 . Melissa Rose Bernardo of Entertainment Weekly commented that McCormack and Maura Tierney " have incredible chemistry " . 
