A study from 2013 found that transgender workers say they're unemployed at twice the rate of the general population (14 percent versus 7 percent at the time of the survey). J. Mase III, who previously collaborated with Dani Tirrell in Black Bois, will help give breath and body to those numbers in this variety show about trans people trying to find work. Mase displayed so much dynamism, talent, and poetic power in Black Bois that I was able to forgive the cliché slam-poet style undergirding their performance. I have no doubt this will be one hell of a show. RICH SMITH