This week’s announcement of the MacArthur Fellows (aka the “genius grants”) didn’t include any Chicago (or former Chicago) theater artists as in past years with Mary Zimmerman and David Cromer, but we’re thrilled that Chicago fiction writer Ling Ma and visual artist Ebony G. Patterson are among this year’s 22 recipients of a no-strings-attached $800,000 […] The post Awards and divas appeared first on Chicago Reader.