Nik Rabinowitz Returns To The Theatre on the Square

Nik Rabinowitz’s Mountain Jew returns by popular demand – After a sold-out season

The brilliant comedy Mountain Jew, written and presented by Nik Rabinowitz, returns by popular demand to the Theatre on the Square after its sold-out season earlier this year.

Popular South African comedian Nik Rabinowitz unpacks heritage, identity, and growing up as a mountain–farm-boy-Jew in South Africa. Packed with sharp observations, big laughs, and classic self-deprecation, this show is unmistakably Nik—clever, warm, and wildly funny!

Born in a converted barn, comedian-slash-farmboy-mountain-Jew Nik Rabinowitz was raised on the slopes of Constantiaberg, Cape Town.

He grew up climbing trees, commentating on his own rugby test matches, and attending a Waldorf school. There, he learned to crochet his feelings and divine the precise spiritual frequency of organic fair-trade mohair using only a pentatonic flute and a watercolour of a gnome.

Half nature-child, half nice Jewish boy, half failed mathematician—this is his stable-to-stand-up story. This show (possibly Nik’s 16th) is a celebration of his 25 years on stage and 50 on the planet. “I have been doing stand-up for two-thirds of my life!” he quips.

Mountain Jew opens again in Jo’burg this month—because as our sages said, “if you can’t bring the Jo’burg Jews to the Mountain, bring the Mountain Jew to Sandton!”

Rave Reviews:

Annabel Linder: “A magnificent artist – brilliant and incomparable. His research is impeccable. Although the show is edifying, he manages to bring the audience to uncontrollable laughter from start to finish“.
Sam Says (Sam Nupen): “Nik Rabinowitz is a comedy genius with a mind that resembles a ball of wool. It takes days to unravel everything he says on stage. Long after the curtain call, you’ll find yourself chuckling, snorting and laughing out loud at the most inappropriate moments“.
Celeb Savant (Barret Edelstein): “Nik Rabinowitz is a brilliantly funny storyteller – this time taking us on a journey of his life“.
Sandton Chronicle / Citizen (Xoliswa Zakwe): “Feeling down? Mountain Jew at Theatre on the Square is a cure!“
Die Boer: “What an incredible performance from Nik Rabinowitz last night! The jokes came at you like a machine gun and you are almost scared to laugh in case you miss the next one! Highly recommended viewing“.