For many of us, efforts to reinvent ourselves are continually derailed by phantoms of the past. Dangerous impulses bring us and those we love closer and closer to the edge. This August, the Baltimore Playwrights Festival nurtures a leap of faith. Kevin Kostic's Unraveled on the Gravel, the festival's first full-length musical in 20 years, delves into the devotional deep while maintaining comic bravery and originality. Exploring the relationship between a compulsive hitchhiker and his girlfriend, the play seeks to illuminate the exhausting struggles of personal redemption and redefinition. Come on along for the ride.(Evan Tarantino)